11-day-old baby girl, parents test positive in Rajkot

TNN | Apr 16, 2020, 04:00 IST

Rajkot: Six more people, including an 11-day-old baby girl, from Jangleshwar area of the city tested positive on Wednesday, taking the total number of Covid-19 cases in Rajkot to 24.
Jangleshwar has been cluster quarantined after the spike in cases.
The baby was suffering from fever for the last few days and referred to the civil hospital on Tuesday where she tested positive late in the night. According to health officials, her parents’ also tested positive on Wednesday evening. The couple - 25-year old-man and a 20-year-old woman - got married just a year ago and the girl was born on April 3.
An 85-year-old man who lived in their neighbourhood was also found infected.
Another 47-year-old man, who is the neighbour of Nadim, the first person from Rajkot to test on March 18, also tested positive. Nadim had recovered from the infection and officials said there was no connection between the two cases. A 37-year-old female from the same locality also tested positive.
Municipal health officer Dr. Pankaj Rathod saidm “We are doing door-to-door survey in the entire Jangleshwar area. We quarantined 49 people on Wednesday from this area out of which 11 are in government quarantine facilities.”
Botad district also registered its first positive case on Wednesday with a 90-year-old man confirmed infected.