Coronavirus scare in Ghaziabad: Two hotels that hosted 400 foreigners to be sanitised

GHAZIABAD: The health department on Sunday ordered the sanitisation of two luxury hotels in Ghaziabad where as many as 409 tourists from foreign countries, including Iran and Italy, had stayed two-three weeks ago.
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) team in Ghaziabad had on Friday received a list of 757 people from the Centre. The names of these 409 foreigners were mentioned on the list.
Chief medical officer NK Gupta said the health department teams had visited the hotels on Sunday to gather information about these visitors. "Moreover, the hotel authorities have been instructed to carry out sanitisaton drives regularly," he added.
As of now, the Ghaziabad health department has been able to track down 87 people, while the locations of 141 are yet to be traced. Officials said they were hopeful of tracking down all of them in a couple of days. They said the delay was mainly due to the absence of contact numbers of visitors. According to the officials, the list provided by the Centre mentions only the residential addresses on the passports.
Meanwhile, the condition of both the 27-year-old patient tested positive at MMG District Hospital and that of the 38-year-old suspected patient at District Combined Hospital were found to be normal on Sunday.