Nagpur: Four females from Satranjipura, city’s Covid-19 hotspot, tested positive for corona on Tuesday taking this area’s tally to 84. The number of positive persons from the district increased to 133, with 63.15% cases from Satranjipura alone.
Three (age 28, 30 and 50) of the four positive persons were in institutional quarantine at Wathoda and were later admitted to GMCH. Remaining one person (20) was shifted to IGGMCH from MLA Hostel.
As per Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC), 21 persons from Satranjipura have tested positive since widespread quarantine was enforced from April 23 onwards. A 68-year-old person from this locality died on April 5 at IGGMCH and his samples tested positive on April 6. NMC had quarantined 230 persons — family members, close contacts and some neighbours — of the deceased between April 6 and 22.
With some neighbours testing positive, municipal commissioner Tukaram Mundhe directed extensive quarantine and examination of all neighbours. NMC quarantined 150 persons on April 23, 123 on April 24, and 498 on April 27 for a total of 1,001. Some 21 positive persons are from the first two lists with some reports still awaited. Also, reports of third list are yet to be released.
An NMC officials said, “Some 50% of the quarantined people said they never met the deceased or his family members.”
TOI spoke to two positive persons, who too said they had never met the deceased or their family members since April 1. It seems a few might have been infected indirectly through neighbours, who met the deceased or their family members.
Mundhe said, “A few more from Satranjipura will be quarantined. We could have taken their samples at the spot. Problem is they are not giving correct information and also not staying inside homes. Therefore, we are quarantining them to contain Covid-19,” he said.
To ensure effective implementation of lockdown, Mundhe met CP Bhushan Kumar Upadhyay and other police officers at NMC on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the reports of a 65-year deceased, resident of Sarose Nagar, Dighori in South Nagpur, came negative on Tuesday. He had died on April 28. South Nagpur is the only one of six constituencies without any positive cases.
The reports of 59 doctors and staff of a cancer hospital are also awaited. They were quarantined at the hospital itself after a cancer patient from Sangam Nagar, North Nagpur, tested positive a couple of days ago.
Three (age 28, 30 and 50) of the four positive persons were in institutional quarantine at Wathoda and were later admitted to GMCH. Remaining one person (20) was shifted to IGGMCH from MLA Hostel.
As per Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC), 21 persons from Satranjipura have tested positive since widespread quarantine was enforced from April 23 onwards. A 68-year-old person from this locality died on April 5 at IGGMCH and his samples tested positive on April 6. NMC had quarantined 230 persons — family members, close contacts and some neighbours — of the deceased between April 6 and 22.
With some neighbours testing positive, municipal commissioner Tukaram Mundhe directed extensive quarantine and examination of all neighbours. NMC quarantined 150 persons on April 23, 123 on April 24, and 498 on April 27 for a total of 1,001. Some 21 positive persons are from the first two lists with some reports still awaited. Also, reports of third list are yet to be released.
An NMC officials said, “Some 50% of the quarantined people said they never met the deceased or his family members.”
TOI spoke to two positive persons, who too said they had never met the deceased or their family members since April 1. It seems a few might have been infected indirectly through neighbours, who met the deceased or their family members.
Mundhe said, “A few more from Satranjipura will be quarantined. We could have taken their samples at the spot. Problem is they are not giving correct information and also not staying inside homes. Therefore, we are quarantining them to contain Covid-19,” he said.
To ensure effective implementation of lockdown, Mundhe met CP Bhushan Kumar Upadhyay and other police officers at NMC on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the reports of a 65-year deceased, resident of Sarose Nagar, Dighori in South Nagpur, came negative on Tuesday. He had died on April 28. South Nagpur is the only one of six constituencies without any positive cases.
The reports of 59 doctors and staff of a cancer hospital are also awaited. They were quarantined at the hospital itself after a cancer patient from Sangam Nagar, North Nagpur, tested positive a couple of days ago.
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