In the first case reported in 10 days, Gurugram district on Saturday recorded 5 new instances of Covid-19.
The district now has 36 cases active cases (excluding the 14 Italians who were admitted to Medanta), out of which 10 are active.
Apart from this, the district witnessed two coronavirus deaths on Saturday. These included a 70-year-old a resident of Ranchi who died during treatment at the Medanta Hospital in Gurugram.
He was reportedly admitted in the hospital two days earlier due to a heart ailment. Another 50-year-old patient, a resident of North Delhi, died during treatment at the same hospital. He was admitted in the hospital on April 6 after he was tested positive, said a senior health official.
According to the health official, the four new patients in Guguram are all residents of Sohna and work in Nuh.
There were among the 70 contacts of an Alwar resident who had tested positive earlier this month. They worked together in a Mewat-based firm. The fifth patient was a head constable of the state police who was posted in Bhondsi jail as a warden.
Sohna’s Raipur village had been marked as a containment zone after police had found 16 people, all residents of Himachal Pradesh, staying in a mosque. All of them had attended the Tablighi Jamaat in March.
“All the patients have been admitted at the government hospital in sector-10 where they are undergoing treatment at the isolation ward of the hospital. Also, we will also identify persons who came in contact with the warden,” said Dr Jaswant Singh Punia, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Gurugram.
About 3,045 samples have been taken in the Gurugram district, out of which 2,788 are negative. The results of another 221 samples are awaited.
The district’s Devilal Colony of Gurugram, Sun City located in Sector-54, Sector-39, Village Fazilpur Jhadsa, Ward No. 11 of Pataudi and Village Raipur of Sohna Sub Division have been notified as Containment Zones by the Gurugram district administration.