12 new +ve cases, all from Satranjipura, Mominpura

Anjaya Anparthi & Chaitanya Deshpande | TNN | Updated: Apr 22, 2020, 13:53 IST

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NAGPUR: Twelve more persons from the city — six each from Mominpura and Satranjipura — tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday taking the district’s total to 93. Total number of cases from Mominpura increased to 17 and from Satranjipura to 54 or 76.34% of district’s total cases. One of the six from Satranjipura is reportedly three-month pregnant.
In a late development, zonal medical officer from Mahal-Gandhibagh Dr Khwaja Moinuddin told TOI, that a 5-year-old boy tested positive on Tuesday night. “His father and mother, residents of Satranjipura, tested positive couple of days ago. The couple had kept their two children — 5-year-old and 2-years-old — at the woman’s maternal home at Bhaldarpura. Eight persons including two children, woman’s father, mother, two brothers and two sister-in-laws were quarantined after that,” he said.
One case from Mominpura is not connected with the earlier chain. He was negative in first sample and has tested positive in second. It is third such case from the district, earlier two being from Gittikhadan and Kanhan.
Secretary of Tablighi Jamaat Nagpur Markaz Abdul Bari Patel told TOI, “The 66-year-old was a Tablighi from Madhya Pradesh. He arrived in the city on a religious tour on March 8. We asked him to get tested and quarantine. He was admitted at the GMCH on April 8. His reports were negative on April 9 so he was quarantined at MLA Hostel. Reports of his second sample came positive on Tuesday.”
The total number of Tablighis who tested positive in the city has increased to 10.
Now, the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) will quarantine people in contact with this case.
From Mominpura, the past chain started with the cap seller followed by seven Jabalpur-based Jamaatis. On April 18, a 42-year-old person who was taking care of food and other requirements of seven Jabalpur-based TJs had tested positive.
On Tuesday, five of his family members tested positive. His father (70) is now district’s oldest positive person. Earlier, 68-year-old deceased from Satranjipura, city’s first and only death from Covid-19, was oldest.
The assistant’s son (2) is youngest positive case in the district. His mother (65), wife (31) and daughter (3) are also positive. They were under institutional quarantine at Vanamati and have been shifted to hospital.
On April 19, a 35-year-old person who was also in service of seven Jabalpur-based TJs had tested positive. Reports of his family members are awaited.
Remaining five new positive cases — age 60 (institutional quarantine at Lonara), 21 and 17 (at Vanamati), 25 and 20 at Symboisis University are from Satranjipura. 21-year-old woman is reportedly pregnant and shifted to IGGMCH. The number of positive women with pregnancy increased to two with earlier one tested positive on April 18. Both are from Satranjipura.
Of these, 23 are family members of 68-year-old deceased who passed away on April 5. Reports of first and second samples of many persons from Satranjipura are awaited. NMC’s containment drive at Satranjipura has completed 16 days and will continue along with four linked containment zones — Dalalpura, Bairagipura, Shanti Nagar and Rajiv Gandhi Nagar.