13-year-old girl dies, positive cases surface from more areas

TNN | Apr 16, 2020, 04:20 IST

A COVID positive patient from Navapura area

Vadodara: A 13-year-old girl died and 10 others including her tested positive for novel coronavirus infection in the city and district since Tuesday night.
Cases have started trickling in from new areas and additional areas have been added to the orange zone in the city.
The 10 new cases since Tuesday night included the 13-year-old girl from the Pratapnagar area. She had other health complications and was unwell for a long time. A Dabhoi man also tested positive, taking the total number of cases in the district to 124 even as five have died due to the disease since the outbreak.
The other cases include the husband of the woman from Karelibaug who had tested positive earlier. He is a policeman working with a state-owned power company. A man from Salatwada and a woman form Amdavadi Pole in Raopura also tested positive. The remaining four cases were reported from Nagarwada area.
The new areas where the cases have been spotted include Pratapnagar, Dabhoi, Amdavadi Pole and Salatwada. Amdavadi Pole and Salatwada are not very far away Nagarwada, but the case in Pratapnagar as well as the one reported on Tuesday from Gorwa have no travel or contact history.
The VMC has added 12 new localities in the old city as well as eastern parts of the city to the orange zone. The movements in and out of this zone will be restricted. Kuresha Park in Gorwa was also declared an orange zone late on Tuesday night. A micro red zone was also created within the area located behind the Gorwa police station.