A man in the capital’s Ramnagar neighbourhood who had no history of foreign travel, was on Thursday, detected with the coronavirus (Covid-19) positive, a senior state health official here said. With this the COVID-19 positive cases in state rose to 6.
The COVID-19 positive cases in state include Raipur 03, Durg 01, Bilaspur 01 and Rajnandgaon 01.
“The 60-year-old man, who is a daily wage earner, tested positive for coronavirus. The person has no history of foreign travel. But he had a very random living-travel pattern,” chief medical health officer (CMHO) Raipur Meera Baghel said.
She further said that the man tested positive during the tracing drive of the possible contacts made by another coronavirus positive person, a few days back.
The man had complained of serious cold symptoms, the CMHO said.
Replying to query whether this could be the first case of ‘community transmission’ of coronavirus, she said her department was trying to locate the source from which the man got the virus.
The Stage-3 of Covid-19 outbreak is called 'community transmission' when a person, who has no history of foreign travel, contracts the pathogen through domestic sources.