In what can be termed as good news amid worldwide gloom generated by the spread of novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), no new patient of the disease was reported for fourth day in a row on Saturday in Uttarakhand. To add to the relief of the people of the State, two more patients of the disease were released from hospital after completely recovering from the disease on the day. So far seven people have recovered from the disease out of total 35 patients reported so far in the state by health authorities. On the day, a 21 year old youth, a resident of Selaqui in Dehradun and the American businessman admitted in the Government Doon Medical College (GDMC) hospital in Dehradun were discharged. Interestingly all 28 remaining patients of the disease in the state are connected to the Tablighi Jamat.
The additional secretary medical health and family welfare department, Yugal Kishore Pant said that reports of 97 ( 93 first samples, 4 repeat samples) suspected patients of the disease were received by the department on Sunday and all of them were found negative for the disease.
He said that reports of 333 samples are still awaited.
The results of 141 samples of suspected patients are awaited in Haridwar district while results of 75 samples are awaited in Dehradun district. Pant added that a total of 1820 swab samples of suspected patients have so far been taken for COVID-19 test in the state.
On Sunday, samples of 108 suspected patients was taken and sent to the lab for test.
He informed that 1823 persons in different parts of the state are kept under institutional quarantine while 53970 are in home quarantine. The department has kept 373 people in hospital isolation.