Naya Gaon area sealed as resident tests positive

LUCKNOW: The Naya Gaon area of Qaiserbagh was sealed on Monday as a resident tested positive for the coronavirus, a senior police officer said. Twelve other localities of Lucknow were sealed last week.

The Naya Gaon resident had returned from a Gulf country on March 3 and had come in contact with several persons, including around 50 medical and paramedical staff of King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, the police said. Police also said he had come in contact with Tablighi Jamaat members.

Joint commissioner of police (Law and order) Navin Arora said three people from the Kasaibada area of Sadar and one from Naya Gaon in Qaiserbagh tested positive for Covid-19.

“A strict vigil is being kept, besides ensuring the lockdown strictly. We are trying to get details of the persons they came in contact with,” Arora added.

“The person (Naya Gaon resident) said he had met Jamaatis at a mosque in Qaiserbagh,” said a senior police official. Police investigation revealed the Naya Gaon resident did not tell doctors about his foreign travel history. Although he was feeling sick for the last 11 days, he visited a doctor instead of going to hospital.

DIAGNOSTIC CENTRE, HOSPITAL ASKED TO SUSPEND WORK

The health department on Monday asked a diagnostic centre and a hospital in the city to suspend work as the 55-year-old man, who tested positive for coronavairus in Lucknow on Monday, had visited these establishments before going to the KGMU.

This was the first of its kind case in the state capital, wherein two establishments were closed due to a visit by a Covid-19 patient. In a letter to the two healthcare providers, chief medical officer Dr Narendra Agrawal asked the owners to make a list of employees and sent them to 14 days’ home quarantine.

“You may close the pathology/ diagnostic centre according to the guidelines from the central and state governments. Also, the list of employees be given to the health department so that their investigation can be done,” said the separate letters from CMO to the diagnostic centre and the hospital.

KGMU CASUALTY AREA DISINFECTED

The authorities decided to sanitize the entire casualty area at the KGMU Trauma Centre on Monday after news that a patient who visited the casualty without mandatory screening tested positive for coronavirus.