Another person tests positive in Lucknow
UNDER OBSERVATION Man was in contact with woman doctor who is city’s case zero
LUCKNOW :With a fresh coronavirus case surfacing in Lucknow on Saturday, the total number of cases in UP has gone up to 12, including two of Lucknow.
Besides the fresh case in Lucknow, Dr Vikasendu Agrawal, state surveillance officer, said: “The sample of a suspected case from Agra, who tested positive in preliminary test, is pending confirmation and the report will come tomorrow (Sunday).”
In all, 27 more ‘virus suspects’ were hospitalised in different districts of UP on Saturday out of which three are symptomatic and six asymptomatic cases from
Agra that has till now reported seven positive cases. Ghaziabad and Lucknow have reported two cases each and one case is from Noida. Three of the ‘virus suspects’ are being treated in KGMU, Lucknow. There are 1,051 out of 3,722 travellers who have been screened across the state and are being tracked. Till now 717 samples from UP have been tested and 598 have come back negative.
The health department has decided to quarantine passengers coming from seven countries -China, Iran, South Korea, Italy, Germany, Spain and France -- for a minimum 14 days. Also, the health department will scan houses in one km vicinity of the residence of both the positive coronavirus cases in Lucknow. The process will start from Sunday morning. The first case is of a woman doctor and the second of the 20-year-old contact of the woman. “We will scan about one lakh houses in the next one week,” said Dr Agrawal.
THE HEALTH DEPT WILL SCAN HOUSES IN ONE KM VICINITY OF THE RESIDENCE OF BOTH THE POSITIVE CORONAVIRUS CASES IN LUCKNOW
LUCKNOW: A 20-year-old man tested positive for coronavirus on Saturday, the second case in Lucknow and 12th in the state.
“We have constituted 150 teams of four members each to screen houses in a one-kilometre radius of the house where the second Lucknow case was living. The entire area is now considered to be the contact of the case and each resident will be screened from Sunday morning,” said Lucknow chief medical officer Narendra Agrawal.
KGMU spokesperson Sudhir Singh said the man, who is admitted in KGMU, is a resident of Indira Nagar and was under observation since March 11. He had come in contact with the woman doctor, who had tested positive on March 11. The woman felt ill on March 8 and had difficulty breathing after returning from Canada. Hence, she went to the doctors at KGMU.
She also gave a list of people whom she had met after coming to Lucknow to the health department. The health department made a list of 11 people as primary contacts. The man who tested positive today was among them.
The condition of the woman doctor admitted to KGMU is stated to be improving. Dr D
Himanshu who is treating her said another sample would be sent for lab test on Sunday.
“A list of contacts helps identify the people who are vulnerable to infection and also helps in early diagnosis of those identified,” said KGMU HoD (pulmonary and critical care medicine) Ved Prakash.
› A list of contacts helps identify people vulnerable to infection and early diagnosis of those identified VED PRAKASH, KGMU, HoD (pulmonary and critical care medicine)
MASK MAKING IN JAILS
Inmates in UP jails are preparing disposable masks to protect prisoners as well as jail staff from getting infected from corona virus. Director general (DG) prisons, Anand Kumar had asked the jail authorities to rope in prisoners to prepare masks in jails which have sewing units. , Kumar said the inmates of Mathura district jail were the first to start and at present were preparing 500 masks daily. “Prisoners in Barabanki jail have also started preparing masks from Saturday ,” he said.