YAVATMAL/AMRAVATI/AKOLA: Eight people, including three women, tested positive for Covid-19 in Yavatmal on Thursday, taking total number of positive cases here to 24. The patients were already admitted at institutional quarantine facilities. With 10 patients recovered and discharged, Yavatmal now has 14 active Covid-19 cases.
The district administration has traced all 102 persons who were contacts of the eight new positive patients. They are now admitted in the isolation wards.
The eight who tested positive on Thursday are from localities that were sealed and put under active surveillance after seven positive patients were detected there on April 8.
“All the eight positive patients belong to same locality which was already sealed. There will be strict curfew from 12 noon on Friday to Monday midnight,” said district collector MD Singh.
Barring hospitals, medical shops, veterinary clinics and cattle food shops, no other activity will be allowed. Milk distribution will be done from 6am to 8 am daily. The rest of the district will function as per the existing guidelines.
In Amravati, the administration continued to grope in the dark about the source from which four families, including a suspected case, from different localities here contracted the infection.
In a bid to curb further spread of the coronavirus, collector Shailesh Naval has asked Amravati Municipal Corporation to withdraw permission given to some shops and businesses and revert to pre-April 20 situation. He has also asked police commissioner to ensure curfew is enforced strictly. The decision was taken after throat swabs of two women, who died on April 20, tested Covid-19 positive on Wednesday (April 22).
In a welcome development, seven Covid-19 patients from Akola recovered and discharged on Thursday. They hail from Patur village near Akola. All were connected to the single source event. All recovered in 14 days and sent home.
Now, out of 168 patients from Vidarbha, 41 have recovered. No new patient was reported from any other part of the region on Thursday.
The district administration has traced all 102 persons who were contacts of the eight new positive patients. They are now admitted in the isolation wards.
The eight who tested positive on Thursday are from localities that were sealed and put under active surveillance after seven positive patients were detected there on April 8.
“All the eight positive patients belong to same locality which was already sealed. There will be strict curfew from 12 noon on Friday to Monday midnight,” said district collector MD Singh.
Barring hospitals, medical shops, veterinary clinics and cattle food shops, no other activity will be allowed. Milk distribution will be done from 6am to 8 am daily. The rest of the district will function as per the existing guidelines.
In Amravati, the administration continued to grope in the dark about the source from which four families, including a suspected case, from different localities here contracted the infection.
In a bid to curb further spread of the coronavirus, collector Shailesh Naval has asked Amravati Municipal Corporation to withdraw permission given to some shops and businesses and revert to pre-April 20 situation. He has also asked police commissioner to ensure curfew is enforced strictly. The decision was taken after throat swabs of two women, who died on April 20, tested Covid-19 positive on Wednesday (April 22).
In a welcome development, seven Covid-19 patients from Akola recovered and discharged on Thursday. They hail from Patur village near Akola. All were connected to the single source event. All recovered in 14 days and sent home.
Now, out of 168 patients from Vidarbha, 41 have recovered. No new patient was reported from any other part of the region on Thursday.
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