Chhota Udepur registers 5th case

TNN | Apr 15, 2020, 04:10 IST

Vadodara: Two more persons tested positive for coronavirus in Chhota Udepur taking the total number of cases in the tribal district to five.
The two new patients are immediate relatives of the third Covid-19 victim from Bodeli who had tested positive on April 11.
District administration officials said that one is 30-year-old elder brother and the other 23-year-old sister-in-law of the third patient. While the epidemiological connection of the third patient is being established, officials said that the two new patients and the third patient were living in the same building.
“The two new patients were already in the government quarantine facility and their samples were collected as the protocol says that all immediate family members of a positive patient have to be moved there,” said district collector Sujal Mayatra.
The third patient had gone to a private hospital in Bodeli on April 10 as he and his mother had some symptoms of the virus. They were then referred to isolation ward in Chhota Udepur where their samples were collected. While his mother had tested negative, the youth’s report was positive.
So far, all five cases in the district have been reported from Bodeli town on Chhota Udepur. A 60-year-old man, who had attended a congregation of Tablighi Jamaat in Delhi, was the first patient and his two-year-old granddaughter was the second patient.