6-yr-old negative girl is +ve in second test, family in doubt

Sarfaraz Ahmed | TNN | Apr 15, 2020, 04:13 IST

Nagpur: With six-year-old granddaughter of Covid-19 victim testing positive on Tuesday, at least her parents worry of her staying without any guardian until the family members recovered has been addressed. But her relatives said they were disappointed with the overall management of the cases.
Around eight family members and relatives including a six-month old girl are admitted to Covid-19 ward at Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) while eight are in its isolation ward. Except the infant, all are positive patients now.
The six-year-old had tested negative last week while the infant has tested negative in both tests. Still, the infant has been kept with her positive patients.
A 27-year-old distant relative is the third person, besides both the minors from Satranjipura family to be kept with all positive cases in the same room. The 27-year-old man, a resident of Rajiv Gandhi Nagar, had no contact with any of the Satranjipura high risk persons. His 60-year-old mother and 30-year-old brother tested negative while he tested positive on Monday.
One of the positive persons told TOI most of them had no travel history but all have been herded together in GMCH ward or quarantine centres with some high risk relatives during the course of medical investigation.
“The high risk ones belong to affluent background. We can’t say much nor officials are paying attention to our concerns. There was also delay in shifting the negative person. The test results of son-in-law of the deceased were kept pending for over seven days. All this while his six-year-old daughter had tested negative but she was not taken away. After her father tested positive, she was tested again and result came positive. How will they or we know how the girl got infected,” asked a family source.
A relative said, “We are worried if only our community is deliberately being targeted. We are adjusting in all circumstances and not complaining about anything yet being accused of not cooperating. I am unable to understand this. Only God knows best.”