No new patient of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) was reported by the health department of Uttarakhand in the State on Saturday. The department has so far reported 48 cases of the disease in the state out of which 26 patients have recovered and have been discharged from the hospitals. Incidentally the active cases of the disease are now concentrated only in three districts ( Dehradun, Haridwar and Nainital) and in rest 10 districts there is no active case of the disease. Meanwhile the lab of the microbiology department of Government Doon Medical College (GDMC) hospital started conducting tests of COVID-19 from Saturday. The Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat formally inaugurated the COVID-19 lab by video conferencing. Speaking on the occasion he said that sample testing would now be on a fast pace in the state.
The additional secretary medical health and family welfare department, Yugal Kishore Pant said that the state now has 22 active cases of disease out of which 13 are in Dehradun, six in Haridwar and three in Nainital district. He said that reports of 183 suspected patients were received by the department on Saturday till 6.00 pm and all of them were found negative for the disease. He said that reports of 411 samples are still awaited by the department. The authorities have so far taken swab samples of 5194 suspected patients for COVID-19 test. On Saturday, samples of 153 suspected patients were taken and sent to the lab for test. The authorities have so far provided psychiatric counselling to 19771 migrants labours kept in different relief camps of the state.
Pant added that out of five districts of state where COVID- 19 cases have so far been reported no case has been reported from last 31 days from Pauri district. Similarly in Udham Singh Nagar no case has surfaced from last 22 days and in Almora, no case has so far been reported from last 22 days. The authorities have kept Dehradun, Haridwar and Nainital districts in red zone, here 25, 7 and 10 cases respectively have been reported so far. The Almora district with one case of the disease and Udham Singh Nagar with four cases have been kept in orange zone while remaining eight districts are in green zone.