Fourteen more persons were detected Covid-19 positive in Chhattisgarh on Wednesday. This takes the active patients tally in the state to 56.
Dr Akhilesh Tripathi, media in charge of the State Control and Command Centre for Covid-19, said that five in Bilaspur, three patients were detected in Rajnandagaon, two each in Balod, and Baloda Bazaar and one each in Rajnandgaon and Surguja districts.
There is spurt in the cases of the novel coronavirus in the state. Twenty-five persons tested positive for the virus on Sunday, three on Monday and six on Tuesday.
In state, a total of 42566 suspected persons sample have been tested out of which 38619 results has been negative. The testing of 3837 samples are underway. At I.R.L Raipur a total of 2278 screening, states bulletin.
Chhattisgarh has total 51 coronavirus active patients. 24 patients are being treated at AIIMS, 7 at COVID hospital Mana-Raipur, 11 at COVID Hospital Bilaspur, 4 at Medical College Hospital Ambikapur, 3 at Medical College Raigarh and 5 at Medical College Rajnandgaon.
Containment zones have been made in district of Koriya, Surguja, Gariaband, Mungeli and Rajnandgaon one each, four in Janjgir, 3 in Baloda Bazar, six in Balod, two in Raigarh and Kabirdham two. Extensive door to door surveillance is being done in these zones. A total of 41,040 persons have been kept in quarantine.