C’garh reports 1st coronavirus case
Posh area in Raipur is sealed
A 24-year-old woman in Raipur in Chhattisgarh has tested positive for Coronavirus, making her the first confirmed Covid 19 case in the state.
The woman arrived in Raipur from London via Mumbai on March 15.
She complained of cold and cough and was admitted in the Raipur branch of All Indian Institute of Medical Science two days later, authorities of AIIMS, Raipur said on Thursday.
“The woman who studies in London landed in Raipur via Mumbai on March 15. She was admitted in AIIMS in Raipur when she complained of cold and cough. Her samples tested positive for infection on Wednesday evening”, AIIMS, Raipur, superintendent Karan Peepre said.
The woman along with her parents has been admitted in an isolation ward of the AIIMS hospital in Raipur, he added.
The samples of her parents were sent for testing and the reports were awaited, he added.
The development has led the Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel
● to call an emergency meeting in the afternoon to review preparations by the state government to deal with the Coronavirus menace.
The Raipur district administration meanwhile has sealed a stretch of the city where the woman was staying to undertake sanitization of the area.
The district administration also ordered closure of all the malls, spas, and departmental stores, besides imposing prohibitory orders under 144 to deny gathering of more than five people at one place. Of the 47 suspected Coronavirus case reported in Chhattisgarh last week, 44 have been tested negative, while reports of the rest three are awaited.