Five more persons, including two women, were tested positive for the coronavirus in Uttar Pradesh’s Gautam Buddh Nagar on Sunday. The total number of cases in the district has reached to 31.
According to District Magistrate BN Singh, those who tested positive for coronavirus on Sunday were a 31-year-old man from Dadri's Bishnoli village, a 19-year-old girl from Noida Sector 27 and two men aged 34 and 35 years and a 35-year-old woman from a housing society in Noida Sector 137.
“The village, sector and society concerned have been temporarily sealed for a period of 48 hours so that sanitisation work could be carried out there. No entry into or exit from the village would be allowed during this period except for emergencies,” Singh stated in his order released on Sunday.
All the five latest cases had directly or indirectly come in contact with a London-based man, who had come for audit work in a private firm in Noida's Sector 135. An FIR was lodged against the firm on Saturday for hiding information about the British citizen's arrival and stay here from March 14-16 on the basis of a complaint from the district's Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Anurag Bhargava.
The contact of infection of all patients in Gautam Buddh Nagar has been traced, the CMO said in a statement and appealed to people to practise social distancing and wash hands frequently to prevent the coronavirus from spreading.