Deoband student tests positive, first case in Mau

Rajeev Dikshit | TNN | Apr 21, 2020, 04:01 IST

SP Mau Anurag Arya issued a clear warning to all those people in the district with history of travel to cities having corona cases to turn up for necessary medical check in 48 hours voluntarily or else be ready to face action

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Varanasi: Mau recorded its first novel coronavirus case when a Deoband student who had returned home after lockdown implementation was traced and found infected. Meanwhile, a woman in Ghazipur another in Azamgarh also tested Covid positive, both having been in touch with Tablighi Jamaat attendees.
ADG Varanasi zone Brij Bhushan told TOI on Monday, “In Mau district, a Deoband student, who had returned home during lockdown, has tested positive. He has been admitted to isolation ward while Mau police are tracing other students who had returned from Deoband with him.”
“The police succeeded in tracing 134 Deoband students and their screening is being done,” he added.
SP Mau Anurag Arya issued a clear warning to all those people in the district with history of travel to cities having corona cases to turn up for necessary medical check in 48 hours voluntarily or else be ready to face action.
Divisional commissioner Deepak Agrawal said samples of a Ghazipur collectorate’s record room employee, who was in contact with Tablighi Jamaat attendees, and his wife had been sent for test. The employee was found uninfected but his wife tested positive and was admitted to isolation ward, pushing the number of Covid-19 cases in Ghazipur district to six.
Officials, meanwhile, heaved a sigh of relief when the laboratory report of a Kota student who tested positive in rapid kit test upon her return showed she wasn’t infected.
“The girl had arrived from Kota with other students in a bus on Sunday and tested positive in rapid test. She has been declared not infected in the laboratory test report and was sent home and asked to be in home quarantine for 14 days. The girl had been kept apart from the 28 students who had returned in the same bus and were quarantined. They were all allowed to go home,” the commissioner said.
In Azamgarh, a woman neighbour of the middle-aged man in touch with Tablighi Jamaat members also tested positive.
DM Azamgarh N P Singh said, “One more woman in Chaksitti hotspot of Mubarakpur in Azamgarh district tested positive. Earlier, three Jamaat attendees from Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Ghaziabad staying in Chaksitti had tested positive. Then a middle-aged man in their contact tested positive. On April 13, his son and daughter were also found infected.”
Covid cases in Azamgarh have increased to seven, though three have been discharged from hospital after they recovered.
Total 183 samples from Mubarakpur had been sent for test following detection of six cases, and 182 were declared not infected.