Indore has reported 12 fresh positive cases on Thursday including a resident doctor of MG Medical College whose test report proclaimed her positive late evening on Wednesday.
The second year PG student of MG Medical College, the woman physician is posted at Gynaecological Department of the medical college and had been treating women patients for the last three days.
“After the resident doctor tested positive on Wednesday night, total 20 persons including doctors have been isolated,” Indore CMHO Dr Pravin Jadia said.
The officer claimed that the woman doctor perhaps contracted the disease during a trip to Lucknow. Her three family members based at Jhansi too have been tested positive for the virus, sources at the medical college said. The physician was at Lucknow in UP between March 17 to 25.
Meanwhile, the total number of positive cases have risen to 75 I Indore city as a late evening Health bulletin from MG medical college claimed that 12 more have tested positive for the fatal virus. With this the total number of positive cases have surged to 98 in Madhya Pradesh.
Two more deaths were reported from Madhya Pradesh commercial capital Indore and one of them was said to be a suspect. An official confirmation was awaited on these deaths.
Amid massive corona outbreak, the city has been put under complete lockdown since Monday. However, several areas reported dearth of essentials including milk and kirana as the administration is still busy devising a mechanism for distribution of basic items to households.
Several local residents reported that milk packets are selling as much as Rs 75 per packet.
As many as 24 patients admitted to various hospitals are improving while the condition of the eight others is said to be critical in Indore city. The district administration has already cautioned the locals about possible reporting of high numbers of cases in the days to come.