JAIPUR: Twenty-five people including 12 linked to the Tablighi Jamaat meet tested Covid-19 positive on Saturday taking the total tally to 205 in the state. Out of this, 111 cases were reported in just the four days of this month.
The death toll also went up to four after a 60-year-old Bikaner woman breathed her last. Two persons from Bhilwara and one from Alwar had fallen prey to the virus earlier.
On the brighter side, the total number of cured patients went up from 21 to 25 after four patients tested negative post treatment.
Seven cases were reported from Jodhpur. Five relatives of a 26-year-old woman, who had travelled to Ahmedabad, tested positive. The infected include her uncle, aunt, sister, brother and one more relative. The husband and daughter of another woman, who had tested positive on April 2, have also been diagnosed with Covid-19.
In Jhunjhunu too, seven persons were found infected. All of them are related to the Tablighi Jamaat.
No new virus case in Jaipur on Saturday
They have been shifted to Bikaner for treatment. A person linked to the Tablighi meet has been found infected at Hindon in Karauli district. A 70-year-old, relative of a person linked to the Nizamuddin meet who had already tested positive, has also contracted the virus in Tonk.
Meanwhile, one evacuee from Iran kept in an isolation facility in Jodhpur has tested positive. So far, 28 Iran evacuess has tested positive.
Banswara also reported its first two cases, while Bhilwara and Bikaner reported one case each. Two cases each were also reported from Churu and Bharatpur.
In Jaipur, none was diagnosed with the disease on Saturday. In curfew-bound Ramganj, 32 teams conducted surveys of 1,687 houses and screened 8,261 people for Covid-19. The teams found 17 people suffering from influenzalike illness. At RUHS College, 55 people who had tested positive in the past few days in Jaipur and its neighbouring districts are undergoing treatment.
“As a WHO protocol, a positive Covid-19 patient is declared negative only when his two consecutive samples taken in a gap of at least 24 hours test negative,” said Dr Narendra Khipal, a senior professor at Institute of Respiratory Disease and nodal officer at RUHS hospital for Covid-19 management. He said a specialised team of chest physicians at the Institute of Respiratory Disease, a wing of SMS Medical College, including faculty members and resident doctors are taking care of the corona patients round-the-clock at RUHS College.
The death toll also went up to four after a 60-year-old Bikaner woman breathed her last. Two persons from Bhilwara and one from Alwar had fallen prey to the virus earlier.
On the brighter side, the total number of cured patients went up from 21 to 25 after four patients tested negative post treatment.
Seven cases were reported from Jodhpur. Five relatives of a 26-year-old woman, who had travelled to Ahmedabad, tested positive. The infected include her uncle, aunt, sister, brother and one more relative. The husband and daughter of another woman, who had tested positive on April 2, have also been diagnosed with Covid-19.
In Jhunjhunu too, seven persons were found infected. All of them are related to the Tablighi Jamaat.
No new virus case in Jaipur on Saturday
They have been shifted to Bikaner for treatment. A person linked to the Tablighi meet has been found infected at Hindon in Karauli district. A 70-year-old, relative of a person linked to the Nizamuddin meet who had already tested positive, has also contracted the virus in Tonk.
Meanwhile, one evacuee from Iran kept in an isolation facility in Jodhpur has tested positive. So far, 28 Iran evacuess has tested positive.
Banswara also reported its first two cases, while Bhilwara and Bikaner reported one case each. Two cases each were also reported from Churu and Bharatpur.
In Jaipur, none was diagnosed with the disease on Saturday. In curfew-bound Ramganj, 32 teams conducted surveys of 1,687 houses and screened 8,261 people for Covid-19. The teams found 17 people suffering from influenzalike illness. At RUHS College, 55 people who had tested positive in the past few days in Jaipur and its neighbouring districts are undergoing treatment.
“As a WHO protocol, a positive Covid-19 patient is declared negative only when his two consecutive samples taken in a gap of at least 24 hours test negative,” said Dr Narendra Khipal, a senior professor at Institute of Respiratory Disease and nodal officer at RUHS hospital for Covid-19 management. He said a specialised team of chest physicians at the Institute of Respiratory Disease, a wing of SMS Medical College, including faculty members and resident doctors are taking care of the corona patients round-the-clock at RUHS College.
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