Eleven doctors and nurses have been placed under home quarantine after a doctor at Kasturba Hospital has tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday night.
Ira Singhal, Director (Press & Information) in the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NMC), said a 1st year PG student was tested positive at LNJP Hospital on Tuesday and her condition is stable now.
“She, along with other seven doctors and four nurses, are primary contacts so kept in home quarantine for now. They will be tested soon,” she said.
Singhal further said the doctor had gone home on April 21 as soon as she developed symptoms and is presently asymptomatic. “None of the other primary contacts are symptomatic as of now. We are monitoring them carefully. Hospital areas which needed sanitisation have been sanitised and reopened so minimal disturbance in services took place,” she said.
“In the recent cases, they left the premises as soon as the symptoms first appeared. We immediately undertook contact tracing and sanitization. We are sanitising all places regularly including hospitals as well,” she added.
Meanwhile, as part of precautionary measures, the corporation has also distributed 3,794 face shields to all the teaching staff engaged in Covid-19 related duties at hunger relief centres and dry food distribution centres.
In addition to the above, North MCD has provided 30,500 masks and other safety equipment to its teachers and other staff of education department engaged in duties, she said.
A nurse at a Hindu Rao hospital in north Delhi was also tested positive for coronavirus on Saturday, following which the facility was closed down.