Thiruvananthapuram: The district authorities are staring at the ‘incubation puzzle’ of coronavirus as a person tested positive for Covid-19, 35 days after he had arrived from Sharjah.
The patient who is a resident of Puthenchantha in Varkala arrived on March 20 and he was under home quarantine in his house. He completed the 28-day quarantine period on April 18. Three days ago he showed signs of cough and mild respiratory distress. He sought treatment at Government Hospital, Varkala, and was given medicines. With cough not subsiding, he volunteered for a test and samples were collected at Paripally medical college and on Thursday his results came positive. He was shifted to Medical College Hospital by evening. The health authorities are also mulling going for a retest considering the unusually long time taken by him to show symptoms and test positive.
Previously, two other cases R3 and R15 who had arrived from foreign countries took 12 days before their samples were tested positive. All other cases, where the persons arrived from foreign countries, tested positive within 3-6 days of being under quarantine. In all the 16 cases reported so far in the district, only two cases showed serious symptoms while remaining cases had shown either no signs or mild moderate symptoms.
The ward-level surveillance team which monitored the patient at Varkala said that he was very co-operative during the quarantine period and never violated the conditions. He has been very concerned about his kids and often expressed willingness for a test. In the first week of April, his three children; all boys developed fever. Initially they were taken to taluk hospital and later to Medical College Hospital. It was concluded that the boys were infected with viral fever and all of them recovered soon.
The health team is now monitoring seven members of the family including the members of the wife’s house at Vettoor. They had supplied provisions to the family during the period of home quarantine. After the quarantine period was over, the children and wife had reportedly visited the house at Vettoor.
Both local residents and health authorities have been flummoxed by the patient testing positive even after 35 days. The authorities said that he was healthy and did not show any signs of disease during the quarantine period. Even when his kids developed fever, he was stable, health officials said. The delay in onset of symptoms has thrown questions at the period of quarantine that has to be followed. The samples of all the family members have been collected.
The district now has 2 active cases. Meanwhile district administration has written to health department to shrink the containment zone within corporation limits. A map of containment zone that has to be observed around Ambalathara where one of the active patients resides was also presented to the health department.
The patient who is a resident of Puthenchantha in Varkala arrived on March 20 and he was under home quarantine in his house. He completed the 28-day quarantine period on April 18. Three days ago he showed signs of cough and mild respiratory distress. He sought treatment at Government Hospital, Varkala, and was given medicines. With cough not subsiding, he volunteered for a test and samples were collected at Paripally medical college and on Thursday his results came positive. He was shifted to Medical College Hospital by evening. The health authorities are also mulling going for a retest considering the unusually long time taken by him to show symptoms and test positive.
Previously, two other cases R3 and R15 who had arrived from foreign countries took 12 days before their samples were tested positive. All other cases, where the persons arrived from foreign countries, tested positive within 3-6 days of being under quarantine. In all the 16 cases reported so far in the district, only two cases showed serious symptoms while remaining cases had shown either no signs or mild moderate symptoms.
The ward-level surveillance team which monitored the patient at Varkala said that he was very co-operative during the quarantine period and never violated the conditions. He has been very concerned about his kids and often expressed willingness for a test. In the first week of April, his three children; all boys developed fever. Initially they were taken to taluk hospital and later to Medical College Hospital. It was concluded that the boys were infected with viral fever and all of them recovered soon.
The health team is now monitoring seven members of the family including the members of the wife’s house at Vettoor. They had supplied provisions to the family during the period of home quarantine. After the quarantine period was over, the children and wife had reportedly visited the house at Vettoor.
Both local residents and health authorities have been flummoxed by the patient testing positive even after 35 days. The authorities said that he was healthy and did not show any signs of disease during the quarantine period. Even when his kids developed fever, he was stable, health officials said. The delay in onset of symptoms has thrown questions at the period of quarantine that has to be followed. The samples of all the family members have been collected.
The district now has 2 active cases. Meanwhile district administration has written to health department to shrink the containment zone within corporation limits. A map of containment zone that has to be observed around Ambalathara where one of the active patients resides was also presented to the health department.
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