Bengal woman jumps quarantine, infects four others

KOLKATA: A 29-year-old woman who wasasked tostay in quarantine at home, but violated the instructions and travelled by two trains from New Delhi to reach Tehatta, about 170km north of Kolkata, has tested positive for Covid-19.

So have her six-year-old son and nine-month-old daughter, and two other relatives.

MUMBAI: Maharashtra recorded 33 new cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) on Saturday, thehighestspikeinadaysofar,as the total count rose to 186. The state’s Covid-19 toll rose to six after the civic body confirmed thatthe85-year-oldsurgeon,who diedonFridayatHindujaHospital,hadsuccumbedtothedisease.

Mumbai, too, saw its Covid-19 casesrisefrom51to73,withaseven-month-old girl becoming the youngestpersoninthecitytotest positive for the disease. The toddler, according to civic officials, gotinfectedfromhermotherwho had travelled to Saudi Arabia. The family lives in Government ColonyatBandraEast.“Wehave home quarantined all residents inGovernmentColony,”saidthe civic official, adding that the motheranddaughterareundergoing treatment at the isolation ward of theHinduhridaysamrat

Balasaheb Thackeray (HBT) TraumaCareHospitalinJogeshwari.

The state government, in a statement,said323patientswere admitted to various hospitals acrossthestateonSaturday,taking the total number of people hospitalised since January 18 to 3,816. The government said that 26patientshaverecoveredsofar.

Meanwhile, the Dombivli policebookeda25-year-oldman, who has been tested positive for Covid-19, and 11 others for arranging a huge wedding function on March 18 and March 19. Thebride,groomandhisparents are among those who have been charged under Section 188, 269, 270and271ofIPCandSection2,3, 4 of Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897.

The action comes after a 60-year-old woman, who attendedthefunction,testedpositive for Covid-19. The man had come from Turkey, where he works, to attend the wedding. “We are also checking other guests who attended the wedding,” said RN Munagekar, senior police inspector, Vishnunagar police station.