Survey in Jhunjhunu after 3 of a family test positive
ON ALERT Patients in isolation at government hospital, there condition is stated to be ’stable’
JAIPUR: Jhunjhunu was under a virtual lockdown on Thursday as 320 teams of doctors and health workers carried out an intensive door-to-door survey, a day after three Covid-19 patients were detected in the city.
The patients - a couple and their three-year-old-daughter – are admitted in the isolation ward at the government hospital, where there condition is stated to be “stable”.
Dr Raman Sharma, who is a member of the medical board set up to treat coronavirus patients, said the patients had only mild symptoms and would recover soon.
In the city, police personnel manned all nooks and corners and checked vehicles on the roads, even as several parts of the city are under curfew till March 20.
Chief medical and health officer (CMHO) Dr CL Gurjar said the doctors and nursing staff who had come in contact with the family have been screened. He said seven members of the family and three doctors have been isolated at the BDK hospital, while another 18 people have been shifted to the isolation ward set up in a university at Chudela village.
The family had returned from Italy on March 8 and was admitted in hospital 10 days later. They were under observation of the health staff in Jhunjhunu, but did not exhibit any symptoms. It was only after the man’s wife complained of body ache and weakness that their samples were taken and sent to SMS hospital in Jaipur on Tuesday, he said.
Dr KK Sharma, director, public health, said 320 teams of health workers had fanned out in four wards of Jhunjhunu district to carry out a house-to-house survey, so that no coronavirus positive cluster would be formed. “They screened the entire population to check their travel history, whether they exhibited any symptoms of the virus,” he said.
After the three cases came to light on Wednesday evening, chief minister Ashok Gehlot held a meeting to review the situation. He announced that section 144 was being imposed in the state.
Gehlot said the government has decided to stamp people returning from foreign countries, especially the 12 coronavirus-hit countries, so that their neighbours maintain social distancing from them.
STAY AWAY FROM WORK, LAWYERS URGED
The Bar Council of Rajasthan urged lawyers on Thursday to stay away from judicial work until March 31 in view of the coronavirus outbreak, council secretary RP Malik said.
Rajasthan High Court Advocates Association president Ranjeet Joshi said all bar associations have decided not to participate in judicial work until March 31.
After a meeting held under the chairmanship of Chief Justice Indrajit Mahanty, a high court circular said, “In all matters where interim orders are lapsing, the orders shall deem to have been extended until the matter is taken up by the regular court.”
CIVIC BODY LAUNCHES DRIVE IN UDAIPUR
The Udaipur Municipal Corporation launched a drive to disinfect public places against novel coronavirus on Thursday. Udaipur mayor GS Tank said on the first day of the drive, major public places – such as collectorate, railway station, municipality office, district court and government MB Hospital – were sanitised.