Varanasi: Senior officials of Varanasi division are on their toes, busy tracing the contacts and co-passengers of a student, who returned from Deoband to Jaunpur district and tested Covid-19 positive on Wednesday.
His co-passenger and a student in an Islamic institute at Moradabad had already been found infected after returning home in Varanasi on April 3.
A total of 39 students from Deoband and Moradabad had travelled in a bus to their homes in Jaunpur, Varanasi, Chandauli and other districts in east UP region after the lockdown announcement. Of these, 24 students reached Jaunpur same day.
Divisional commissioner Deepak Agrawal said, “A student from Deoband tested positive for Covid-19. Tracing his travel history and contacts, Jaunpur administration found he had travelled in a bus with other students from Deoband and Moradabad. The efforts to trace his co-passengers and contacts in Jaunpur and other districts have been intensified.”
“A student from an Islamic institute in Moradabad, who reached his home in Lohta, Varanasi travelled in the same bus and tested positive on April 3, while three other co-passengers have been traced in Chandauli and their reports are awaited. A massive search drive is on across east UP to trace other co-passengers,” said ADG Varanasi zone Bharat Bhushan.
Total 39 persons, including 36 from Deoband, two from Moradabad and one Tabhligi Jamaat attendee had boarded the bus to reach Jaunpur, Varanasi, Chandauli and adjoining districts and 24 had alighted in Jaunpur, he added.
On April 3 night, 3 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Varanasi district in which two were Tablighi Jamaat attendees while third one was a 25-year-old youth of Lohta, an undergaduate student of Shahi Madrassa in Mandi Chowk, Moradabad. Lohta was declared red zone.
His co-passenger and a student in an Islamic institute at Moradabad had already been found infected after returning home in Varanasi on April 3.
A total of 39 students from Deoband and Moradabad had travelled in a bus to their homes in Jaunpur, Varanasi, Chandauli and other districts in east UP region after the lockdown announcement. Of these, 24 students reached Jaunpur same day.
Divisional commissioner Deepak Agrawal said, “A student from Deoband tested positive for Covid-19. Tracing his travel history and contacts, Jaunpur administration found he had travelled in a bus with other students from Deoband and Moradabad. The efforts to trace his co-passengers and contacts in Jaunpur and other districts have been intensified.”
“A student from an Islamic institute in Moradabad, who reached his home in Lohta, Varanasi travelled in the same bus and tested positive on April 3, while three other co-passengers have been traced in Chandauli and their reports are awaited. A massive search drive is on across east UP to trace other co-passengers,” said ADG Varanasi zone Bharat Bhushan.
Total 39 persons, including 36 from Deoband, two from Moradabad and one Tabhligi Jamaat attendee had boarded the bus to reach Jaunpur, Varanasi, Chandauli and adjoining districts and 24 had alighted in Jaunpur, he added.
On April 3 night, 3 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Varanasi district in which two were Tablighi Jamaat attendees while third one was a 25-year-old youth of Lohta, an undergaduate student of Shahi Madrassa in Mandi Chowk, Moradabad. Lohta was declared red zone.
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