No new patient of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) was reported for second consecutive day in Uttarakhand on Thursday. The State has so far reported 37 cases of the pandemic which has taken more than 1.36 lakh lives in the world and derailed the global economy.
However in comparison to other parts of the country, the outbreak of the disease appears to be controlled so far with 37 patients. Out of them, nine patients have recovered completely and have been discharged from the hospitals.
The additional secretary, medical health and family welfare department, Yugal Kishore Pant said that informed that reports of 186 suspected patients were received by the department on Thursday and all of them were found negative for the disease.
He said that reports of 346 samples are still awaited. The authorities have so far taken swab samples of 2593 suspected patients for COVID-19 test. On Thursday, samples of 161 suspected patients were taken and sent to the lab for test.
The health department collected 84 samples from Haridwar district on the day while 26 samples were collected from Dehradun. The authorities collected 16 samples each from Udham Singh Nagar and Nainital districts.
A total of 1,898 people are under institutional quarantine while 450 suspected patients in hospital isolation.
The authorities have kept 62,425 people are in home quarantine in different parts of the state.
In the State, Dehradun district with 18 cases so far is at the top of the table and as per the central government guidelines is a hot spot district and kept in red zone.
The districts of Chamoli, Rudraprayag, Tehri, Uttarkashi, Champawat, Bageshwar and Pithoragarh have so far reported no case of the disease while Nainital and Haridwar districts have so far reported eight and five cases respectively.
In Udham Singh Nagar four patients have so far been found while one patient each has been reported from Pauri and Almora districts.