Another person from Agra tests positive
LUCKNOW/AGRA: One more Agra resident tested positive for coronavirus in initial testing at KGMU, Lucknow, on Sunday, taking the total number of cases of the Taj City to seven and the Uttar Pradesh total to eight as the Ghaziabad resident’s samples were confirmed positive for the virus by NIV, Pune.
A 38-year-old woman from Agra tested positive in initial testing at KGMU.
LUCKNOW/AGRA: One more Agra resident tested positive for coronavirus in initial testing at KGMU, Lucknow, on Sunday, taking the total number of cases of the Taj City to seven and the Uttar Pradesh total to eight as the Ghaziabad resident’s samples were confirmed positive for the virus by NIV, Pune.
“A 38-year-old woman from Agra tested positive in initial testing at KGMU. Also, samples of the man from Ghaziabad were confirmed positive by NIV, Pune,” said Dr Vikasendu Agrawal, state surveillance officer in the Uttar Pradesh health department.
The total number of cases detected positive in UP were eight (seven of Agra and one of Ghaziabad), he said.
During the day 13 people from Uttar Pradesh, who came in contact with the infected patients, were admitted to different hospitals in Hathras, Siddharthnagar, New Delhi and Agra.
Meanwhile, the health department has started coronavirus testing also at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) lab in Varanasi. The other lab in the state that is testing samples of coronavirus suspected people is at King George’s Medical University (KGMU). In the last 24 hours, the KGMU lab tested 26 samples of which one tested positive (the Agra woman). She is wife of the man who had tested positive on Saturday in initial testing. “Both husband and wife are being shifted to Delhi for further treatment,” said chief medical officer of Agra Dr Mukesh Vats.
“As of Sunday, the woman was admitted in the isolation ward at Agra district hospital but preparations were on to shift her and her husband to Delhi for better treatment,’’ Vats said.
The man, who tested positive on Saturday, was employed at a factory owned by a family whose members had returned from Italy some time back, and five of them were found positive for the virus earlier, he said. The five members of the factory owners’ family are already undergoing treatment at Safdarjung
Hospital in Delhi, he added.
In Uttar Pradesh 657 travellers, out of 3,014 screened across the state, are under home isolation. From among them 120 have been identified as symptomatic. Results of 93 samples, sent to different labs from the state, are awaited.
KGMU has formed a rapid response team that is training medical staff of various hospitals to work with international protocols and guidelines for coronavirus patients, said Dr Ved Prakash, HoD pulmonary and critical care medicine at the KGMU.
From Sunday, KGMU began confirmatory tests too, said the state health department.