As soon as the information was received about the suspected patients of novel corona virus in a hotel located in Maharana Pratap Nagar, Bhopal, the Chief Medical Officer took prompt action according to the guidelines of the Central Government.
All rooms on this floor, including the room where the customer stayed, have been vacated immediately.
The health check-up of all the employees working in the hotel was conducted by the doctors, in which all the employees were found to be healthy. The four suspected patients have been kept under surveillance and isolation.
It may be mentioned that no positive case of novel corona virus disease has been found in the state so far. The state government has strengthened the measures for monitoring and prevention of the disease. According to the information received from the State Surveillance Unit, 1,000 passengers arrived from the novel corona virus affected countries have been identified till date.
Out of these passengers, 541 have been kept in isolation in their homes and surveillance of 382 passengers has already been completed.
Samples of 43 suspected cases had been sent for investigation to NIV Pune, Indira Gandhi Government Medical College-Nagpur, AIIMS-Bhopal and NIRTH – Jabalpur, out of which 29 reports have been found negative and 14 reports are yet to come. Passengers from affected countries are being screened at Indore, Bhopal, Jabalpur, Chhatarpur and Gwalior airports.
Till date 12 thousand 32 passengers have been screened at Indore, Bhopal, Gwalior, Chhatarpur and Jabalpur airports.
So far, 1,764 calls have been received at the state-level call center 104 for information and advisories on the disease.