Surat-retuned nurses infect Dang, 3rd positive case found

TNN | Apr 30, 2020, 04:00 IST

Health teams in a village of Ahwa taluka of Dang

Surat: A 24-year-old woman from Ahwa town of Dang district tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday night. According to Dang district collector N K Damor, Pallavi Lakhan was working as a nurse at a private hospital in Surat and had returned to Dang on April 15.
After her report came positive, Lakhan was shifted to an isolation ward at Covid-19 Care Centre at Shamgahan in the district. Four people who have come in contact with her too have been quarantined.
Damor further said that Lakhan has put up at the Shwaraj Ashram in Ahwa, the headquarters of Dang district. She had also been booked for violating lockdown rules as she had entered into the district violating norms, he added.
This was the third Covid-19 positive case from Dang district till date and all the three cases have been reported from Surat-returned nurses.
Earlier, a 17-year-old Neha Gavit from Bhendmal village in Vaghai taluka of Dang district was tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday. Prior to that a 19-year-old a Surat-returned nurse, Preeti Kunvar, had tested positive for Covid-19 in Dang district on April 23. Kunwar was working in Kiran Hospital in Surat city before returning to her native village.
According to district health officials, total 322 samples have been tested from the district so far, of which three tested positive. Total 319 people are under home quarantine and 26 are at government quarantine facility in the district.