Bihar: 12 persons sent to isolation centre

Kumar Rajesh | TNN | Updated: Apr 6, 2020, 08:02 IST

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BHAGALPUR: Eleven residents of Naugachia besides son of a 65-year old person, who tested Covid-19 positive, has been sent to the isolation centre at the Naugachia sadar hospital on Sunday.
While intensive door-to-door identification of the Naugachia locality, where the corona positive person lived, has been ordered by the district administration in order to identify the other persons who might have come into the contact of the positive person. The district and health department is also contemplating to declare the 3km of circle area around the corona positive man’s house as the ‘containment zone’. Beyond the 3km containment area, the next 7km would be declared as ‘buffer zone’, said sources adding, “Asha workers, anganbari workers, ANMs, panchayat members and others will make a door-to-door survey in the containment zone to identify persons who might have come into the contact of the positive man.”
Naugachia SDO Mukesh Kumar is monitoring the persons who have been kept in the isolation ward at sadar hospital.
The corona positive man along with his family had travelled to UK (England) recently for a family function there and arrived at teh Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport, Kolkata, from London on March 18 and then to Naugachia on March 19. On April 2, the man developed cough and cold and also complained about breathing problem. The man, accompanied by his wife, reached the ‘flu corner’ at sadar hospital where his and his wife’s throat swab samples were taken and sent to RMRI, Patna for pathological test.
“On April 4 evening, the man’s pathological report confirmed his being infected with coronavirus (positive) whereas his wife’s report was negative,” said civil surgeon Dr Vijay Kumar Singh. Following the report, the health department got the man admitted at the isolation ward of JLNMCH in the night of April 4.
JLNMCH superintendent Dr R C Mandal said the corona positive man was admitted on Saturday night and is being treated by medical experts.
Bhagalpur DM Pranav Kumar has ordered to identify all persons who came in contact of the corona positive man after he reached Naugachia.
Meanwhile, according to unconfirmed reports, the man, even during his home quarantine period had roamed around in his locality and mingled with people freely which is a cause of concern for the district administration and health officials.