Three more test positive in the Surat, cases touch 20

TNN | Updated: Apr 8, 2020, 14:34 IST

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SURAT: Three more persons tested positive of Covid-19 in the city, taking the total number of cases to 20 on Tuesday.
The health authorities were worried after one Sajid Abdul Rehman Ansari, 40, a resident of Rampura who is the ambulance driver at Lokhat hospital, tested positive on Tuesday. Sajid was employed at Lokhat for the last five years and he had come in the contact with the hospital staff before being admitted in the New Civil Hospital on April 6.
Health officials said that his three close contacts and the health staff of the Lokhat hospital in Rampura have been quarantined.
Another patient, Zubeda Abdul Sattar Patel, 67, a resident of Rander tested positive. She was admitted in the isolation ward of the NCH on April 6. Zeenat Qureshi, 45, a resident of Adajan Patiya, who is the wife of the Covid-19 positive patient Abdul Wahid Qureshi, was also found infected with the virus.
Meanwhile, eight new patients with suspected symptoms of the virus were admitted in the New Civil hospital and Seventh Day Adventist Mission mission on Tuesday.
Deputy municipal commissioner (health and hospital), Dr Ashish Naik said, “The positive cases are on the rise from Adajan Patiya and Rander. Earlier, a portion of Rander town was under mass quarantine and now we have put the entire stretch from Adajan Patiya to wier-cum-causeway under mass quarantine.”
MALE NURSE TESTS POSITIVE IN HIMMATNAGAR
In Himmatnagar town of Sabarkantha, a male nurse name Narendrasinh Chauhan, working in isolation ward of civil hospital also tested positive on Tuesday, said chief distrct health officer Rajesh Patel. All 33 co-staffers of Chauhan have been quarantined and the block number 2 where he was living in the government quarter has been sanitized.