One more positive Covid-19 patient recovered in Chandigarh on Friday, with the recovery rate of patients recorded in the city at 55 percent now, more than double the national average of 21 percent.
No fresh case of Covid-19 (coronavirus) has been reported in the city in the past four days. The total number of coronavirus cases stood at 27 till Friday evening while 15 out of them have already recovered.
The active cases in the city are now 12. Chandigarh has not recorded any Coronavirus related death.
According to the data released by Government of India recently, the rate of doubling of Covid-19 cases in Chandigarh stood at 25.4 days against the national average of 7.5 days.
“A 49 years old male, a resident of Sector 35 here who had a history of contact with nephews returning from Dubai and Singapore (residents of Punjab) has been cured and discharged from PGIMER on Friday,” said a senior UT officer.
He said that nine more Chandigarh contacts of Nayagaon (Punjab) positive patient who had been sampled at GMSH- 16 have been reported to be negative for coronavirus.
Punjab Governor and UT Administrator VP Singh Badnore on Friday expressed happiness at the recovery of another positive case in the city and applauded the role of doctors at PGIMER.
Notably, Chandigarh was declared a Covid-19 hotspot by Central Government on April 15 following which the UT Administration had declared the entire city as “containment zone” to contain the spread of Coronavirus.
A curfew was imposed in the city on March 24 to ensure social distancing amid Coronavirus pandemic and will remain in force till May 3.
So far, a part of Sector 30 B and Kacchi colony, Dhanas in Chandigarh has been declared as “affected pockets” and completely sealed to stop the infection. Around 1100 households live in Kacchi Colony, Dhanas while 590 families live in a part of Sector 30 B. A total of five positive cases have been reported from these affected areas.
Till Friday evening, a total of 638 samples have been tested so far while the report of seven was awaited till the filing of this report. As a precautionary measure, 2150 people have been put in home quarantine, out of which 1531 have completed the quarantine period till now.
Notably, the first positive case of Covid-19 was reported on March 19 in the city.
PGIMER team lined up outside NHE to cheer up Covid-19 cured patient
PGIMER team lined up outside the Nehru Hospital Extension (NHE) Block, designated as Covid Hospital, to cheer when a 49 years old positive patient from Chandigarh was discharged, giving hope to others fighting their battle of Covid-19 on Friday.
As PGIMER team ushered him towards the exit, the local resident of Sector 35 here was reunited with his family after nearly 21 days in PGIMER.
The patient was admitted in GMSH, Sector 16 on March 30 where he was tested Covid -19 positive. Later, he was shifted to PGIMER on April 3.
PGIMER Director Jagat Ram said, “The local resident has made an incredible recovery and the joyful moment of his discharge marks a positive milestone for PGIMER, which has been caring for all the positive Covi-19 patients in addition to SARI, ILI and non-Covid patients not only from the tricity but also from the adjoining neighbouring states.”
He said, “Today’s discharge marks the successful recovery of seventh Covid-19 positive patient from PGIMER’s dedicated Covid hospital.”
Giving details of the cured patient, Prof. Pankaj Malhotra, Department of Internal Medicine, PGIMER said, “The decision to discharge the patient from the hospital was taken by the treating team, which met and examined the results of his samples that had tested negative for two successive tests, a necessary pre-condition for a patient to be declared cured.”