Patna woman tests positive, case tally at 86

Sheezan Nezami & Farrukh Nadim | TNN | Updated: Apr 19, 2020, 07:59 IST

Representative image

PATNA/NALANDA: A 32-year-old woman tested positive for Covid-19 in Patna on Saturday, taking the total number of cases in the state to 86. Two people have died so far and there are currently 47 active cases and 37 people have been cured.
The woman is undergoing treatment at the AIIMS-Patna. “She had productive cough, fever, body ache and chest pain at time of admission on Friday and she was complaining of difficulty in breathing for the past two days,” said AIIMS dean Dr Neeraj Agarwal.
As per reports from AIIMS-Patna, she neither had any travel history nor had she come in contact with any positive person. A covid positive youth from Vaishali, who died on Friday, also did not have any travel history nor had he come in direct contact with any positive person.
The 32-year-old woman is the seventh positive case from Patna and second active case from the city as five have recovered. Patna DM Kumar Ravi said, “Our team has reached the spot and we are tracing all those who came in contact with her. The Patna Municipal Corporation has been instructed to sanitize the area.”
On Friday night, a 17-year-old boy from Nalanda and a 42-year-old man from Begusarai tested positive for Covid-19 virus. Both had come in contact with a positive person.
The 17-year old from Nalanda is a resident of Biharsharif and had contracted the virus from his maternal uncle, who had returned from Dubai on March 21. The Dubai-returned man has so far transmitted the virus to five relatives, including his wife, father, sister-in-law, father-in-law and nephew. While all his relatives are from Biharsharif, his father-in-law is from Patna.
Nalanda civil surgeon Dr Ram Singh said 17 members of his family were quarantined and their samples sent to Patna-based laboratory for test. He added that the screening of 50 others was underway in the locality and several of them would be sent for quarantine.
Dr Ram said reports of 14 Tablighi Jamaat members, who attended a two-day conference at Biharsharif's Sheikhana locality on March 14 and 15, days before the lockdown was enforced, have come negative for Covid-19. He said all their family members, relatives and suspected contacts, who have been isolated, too, were tested negative.