Gurugram reported 9 more coronavirus positive cases on Friday. The situation is alarming here with 65 cases reported a week ago and now the tally has zoomed up to 126 on Friday. The Gurugram district reported 74 Covid-19 cases in the past eight days.
The total coronavirus cases are 126 in Gurugram, including 52 who were cured and discharged from hospitals. While 75 are undergoing treatment.
Gurugram Civil Surgeon JS Punia said that 20 of them are wholesale vegetable dealers in Khandsa Anaj Mandi, who have direct contacts with the Azadpur vegetables and fruits wholesale market.
Earlier, nine wholesalers or their employees in the same market-tested positive and have been hospitalised.
The affected areas were sealed by Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) and health officials have initiated the sanitation works.
After corona patients were found for the first time in Khandsa market on May 3, it was shut for the next five days. Due to this, the city is facing acute shortage of vegetables and fruits. The official said that 65 persons are under quarantine after they returned from other States. "All of them are isolated at different Government, ESI and private hospitals. Their family members are also put under home quarantine. The health officials are making efforts to identify others who were infected after coming in contact with them," Punia said.
Meanwhile, the official up-scale Vipul Belmonte residential complex at Golf Course road was sealed after the emergence of two Covid-19 cases on Thursday. The patients, a senior citizen couple, underwent Covid-19 test after the wife got a fever. The husband had recently visited the Azadpur vegetable and fruit wholesale market in Delhi.
Earlier The district administration Gurugram had issued an order to relax lockdown norms in the district starting from May 4. As per the order people in the district can move anywhere within the district from 7.00 am to 7.00 pm.
After 7 pm and up to 7 am the following morning, Nobody allowed to move, even with a pass, except for medical and essential services.Also, the people of the Containment zones will not be allowed to come out. The Gurugram district now has 24 containment zones.