Two new patients of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) were reported in Uttarakhand on Sunday. These two patients are residents of Dehradun and are reported to have come in contact with Tablighi Jamaat followers. With them the number of COVID-19 patients in the state increased to 44 .
Meanwhile two patients of the disease were discharged from the hospitals after recuperating from the dreaded disease on Sunday. With them the number of patients who have recovered from the disease in the state has reached to 11.
The two patients found positive for the disease are residents of Azad Colony in Dehradun and are said to be natives of West Bengal. Both of them were kept in institutional quarantine at Bidholi, Paundha since April 11. The authorities shifted them to Government Doon Medical College (GDMC) hospital after their samples were found positive for the disease.
The additional secretary, medical health and family welfare department, Yugal Kishore Pant said that out of 11 patients who have been discharged from hospitals so far after recovering from the disease, eight are from GDMC hospital and one each from Military Hospital (MH) Dehradun, Base hospital Kotdwar and Base hospital Almora. He said that all these discharged patients have been kept under quarantine in their homes for 15 days as a precautionary measure. Pant added that the work of contact tracing of the positive patients is on a war footing. He informed that reports of 336 suspected patients were received by the department on Sunday till 6.30 pm and out of them two were found positive while 334 were found negative for the disease. He said that reports of 255 samples are still awaited. The authorities have so far taken swab samples of 3344 suspected patients for COVID-19 test. On Sunday, samples of 183 suspected patients were taken and sent to the lab for test. A total of 2153 people are under institutional quarantine while 516 suspected patients are in hospital isolation in the state. The authorities have kept 64004 people under home quarantine in different parts of the state.
He added that 10 COVID-19 positive patients are currently admitted in GDMC hospital while 13 are undergoing treatment at government medical college Haldwani. Seven patients are admitted in Mela hospital, Haridwar and one MH Dehradun.