A six-month-old girl with a congenital heart defect at Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research is tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday.
The child was referred from Phagwara town of Kapurthala district and was admitted in PGIMER on April 9. An official in PGIMER confirmed that the infant was admitted in Advance Pediatric Centre, PGIMER for surgery. The test for the coronavirus was conducted as per the institute’s protocol before conducting any surgery. The child was tested positive today and the source of infection is not known yet, the official said.
After this, the contact tracing of medical staff who attended to the patient in the past over two weeks had begun. The doctors and other staff in APC who came in contact with the child have been quarantined and sampled for Coronavirus. The family contacts would also be tested, the official said. The authorities are monitoring the patients who were admitted in the same ward, the official added. The development came only a day after when the PGIMER Director Dr Jagat Ram had issued a statement claiming that protocols are being followed by the institute to stop the spread of coronavirus among healthcare workers. Recently, a PGIMER nursing staff was infected of coronavirus but has fully recovered now.
NO FRESH CASE REPORTED IN CHANDIGARH
No fresh positive case of coronavirus was reported in Chandigarh on Wednesday.
A total of 14 family contacts of Sector 18 coronavirus positive case were sampled and all of them have turned out to be negative for the disease, said an official spokesman. A 82 years old lady, who has been residing in Sector 18 Chandigarh and Sector 12 Panchkula was tested positive Monday.