After nine days, Gurugram district on Friday recorded five new patients suffering from COVID-19.
One of them is a Tablighi Jamaat member was rounded up in the city.
A man and his son, residents of Suncity, who had travelled back from Mumbai, have tested positive.
Two women currently in Medanta also have tested positive. The two women of Jharsa village. One of the women is a private hospital nurse.
“We have received four fresh positive cases in the distirct on Friday. Of them, we have identifed one person who had participated in Jamaat meet event,” said Dr Jaswant Singh Punia, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Gurugram.
However, while many states across the country are struggling to handle the critical situation, the local administration in the district is leaving no stone unturned to control the deadly COVID-19 outbreak.
The administration has taken several steps to make the residents aware about the dreaded virus infection and has deployed special task forces to help the patients and their respective family members so far.
“We have appealed to the people to follow the rules during the lockdown and not to leave their houses unnecessarily. People must not come on the streets unless it is very important and try to work from home. Also, to prevent the spread of coronavirus infection, it is necessary that people stay in ther homes for a few days and do not come in contact with more people,” said deputy commissioner of Gurugram, Amit Khatri.
The Gurugram district administration, on Tuesday had sent 27 coronavirus suspected patients from Pataudi and six from Dhankot village to quarantine at the Civil Hospital after collecting their samples for testing their reports are awaited.
Of these 27 people, 13 are adults and the remaining are children. They were taken to civil hospital, sector 10, where their samples were collected for Covid-19 testing.