Woman suspected of coronavirus kept in isolation

Officials said all 38 people the woman came in touch with have been traced. She was among 168 people the affected Paytm employee came in contact with.

A woman, who came in contact with the Paytm employee who tested positive for coronavirus, has been admitted to Safdarjung Hospital here for suspected infection, Delhi’s health department said on Saturday. In a bulletin, the department said she is kept under isolation at the hospital.

“One more case is preliminarily tested positive for COVID-19 in Delhi. Confirmation is awaited. She has no travel history but has history of contact with Case no. 2 (the Patym employee) on 28.02.2020,” it said.

Delhi has recorded three positive cases of coronavirus — a 45-year-old man from Mayur Vihar, the Paytm employee who works in Gurgaon and lives in west Delhi and another man from west Delhi with a travel history to Thailand and Malaysia. Officials also said all 38 people the woman came in touch with have been traced. She was among 168 people the Paytm employee came in contact with.

In a precautionary measure to prevent spread of coronavirus, the Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee (DSGMC) will distribute protective masks free of cost. The DSGMC chairman Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Saturday said that the masks will be distributed through gurudwaras in the city managed by the DSGMC.

In Ghaziabad, licences of five medical stores have been cancelled after they were found to be selling hand sanitisers and face masks at inflated rates in the wake of the coronavirus scare, officials said. The drug department conducted raids on a number of retail and wholesale medical stores in the district following several complaints of black marketing of precautionary equipment to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 infection, they said.