Stepping up the fight against coronavirus outbreak , the Chhattisgarh government until Wednesday evening, home-quarantined more than 51,900 people across the state, officials said.
“In Chhattisgarh as of now 51,935 people have been home quarantined,” mission director, national health mission in Chhattisgarh, Priyanka Shukla said.
According to the mission director, 74 quarantine centers have been set up across the state with total capacity of housing 1249 people.
At present, 167 individuals have been housed in the centres, she said in a tweet.
She further informed that samples of more than 750 suspected have been tested so far and only 9 persons turned out COVID-19 positive.
Elaborating the rapid testing happening in state she informed that 166 samples were tested in a single day on Tuesday.
Notably, the ninth coronavirus positive person was found in DD Nagar neighbourhood of Raipur city. The young woman too had returned from the United Kingdom.
Two persons, including a youngster from Bhilai and an elderly man from Ramsagarpara neighbourhood of Raipur, were discharged from the AIIMS, Raipur, after they recovered from Covid-19.