NOIDA: A woman nine months into pregnancy tested positive for Covid-19 in Noida on Thursday. The district has 145 reported cases so far, of which seven were reported late on Thursday night.
The 27-year-old woman, from a Sector 121 society, had not stepped out of her house before April 28, when she went to a hospital for a checkup, her husband said.
“We live on the second floor of our apartment complex and have been home the entire time, with no interaction with anyone else. We only left home on April 28, when I took my wife for a routine checkup at a hospital in Vaishali. She was tested for Covid-19 there and the report came back on Wednesday night,” he added.
After her report came in, she was referred to GIMS. Her husband, who has not shown any symptoms yet, was taken to the quarantine ward at Galgotias University. His samples were collected on Thursday.
There are four others in their family — the man’s parents and two sisters — who will be tested later.
A controversy arose for a brief while when the man tweeted his wife had to share the ward and a toilet with men. It, however, seems to have been resolved — the husband tweeted again to thank the hospital and the administration. Hospital authorities said no official complaint came their way.
“The patient is in a separate six-bed dormitory, which has no other patient as of now. If there are more women patients, they may be moved into the dormitory. There is proper sanitation in the wards and no complaint has been reported,” Dr Saurabh Kumar Shrivastav, in charge of the Covid ward at GIMS, said. The hospital followed this up with a statement that it has separate wards for men and women.
Of the seven cases reported late at night, two are from JJ Colony in Sector 8. Four of the tests had been done at government labs. Another person from Greater Noida tested positive on Thursday but was added to Delhi’s Covid count. His family in Greater Noida is in quarantine.
Eight people were discharged across the district on Thursday — 88 have recovered so far. Noida now has 57 active cases. The Centre revised the list of red, orange and green zones across the country on Thursday. There are 130 districts in the red zone countrywide. Gautam Budh Nagar is among the 19 red zones in Uttar Pradesh.
Noida, meanwhile, got another testing centre. At Sharda Hospital, a new centre to conduct RT-PCR (reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction) test, the conventional test for Covid-19, was approved by the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NAand the Indian Council of Medical Research on Wednesday.
“It is the first private medical college in Uttar Pradesh to set up a Covid testing lab,” a hospital official said. Commercial testing is expected to begin in a day or two. “We will be charging Rs 2,500 for a test. We are hoping to get reports within 12-24 hours of the test,” said a hospital spokesperson.
TB patient on road
In Dadri, a man admitted to GIMS in Greater Noida 10 days ago was found lying by the side of the road near the Community Health Centre with Covid-like symptoms.
The patient, Rajender Kumar, had been admitted to the health facility on April 20 after residents reported to the health department that he had been sick. Rajender is homeless and has pulmonary tuberculosis. He was tested and the results showed he did not have Covid-19, the hospital said. So they discharged him on Thursday.
Residents spotted him, abandoned on the road. A video, meanwhile, went viral and the health department took note.“An inquiry under the additional district magistrate has been ordered. Strict action will be taken against the ambulance and other personnel responsible for this,” chief medical officer said.
(With inputs from Abhishek Awasthi)
The 27-year-old woman, from a Sector 121 society, had not stepped out of her house before April 28, when she went to a hospital for a checkup, her husband said.
“We live on the second floor of our apartment complex and have been home the entire time, with no interaction with anyone else. We only left home on April 28, when I took my wife for a routine checkup at a hospital in Vaishali. She was tested for Covid-19 there and the report came back on Wednesday night,” he added.
After her report came in, she was referred to GIMS. Her husband, who has not shown any symptoms yet, was taken to the quarantine ward at Galgotias University. His samples were collected on Thursday.
There are four others in their family — the man’s parents and two sisters — who will be tested later.
A controversy arose for a brief while when the man tweeted his wife had to share the ward and a toilet with men. It, however, seems to have been resolved — the husband tweeted again to thank the hospital and the administration. Hospital authorities said no official complaint came their way.
“The patient is in a separate six-bed dormitory, which has no other patient as of now. If there are more women patients, they may be moved into the dormitory. There is proper sanitation in the wards and no complaint has been reported,” Dr Saurabh Kumar Shrivastav, in charge of the Covid ward at GIMS, said. The hospital followed this up with a statement that it has separate wards for men and women.
Of the seven cases reported late at night, two are from JJ Colony in Sector 8. Four of the tests had been done at government labs. Another person from Greater Noida tested positive on Thursday but was added to Delhi’s Covid count. His family in Greater Noida is in quarantine.
Eight people were discharged across the district on Thursday — 88 have recovered so far. Noida now has 57 active cases. The Centre revised the list of red, orange and green zones across the country on Thursday. There are 130 districts in the red zone countrywide. Gautam Budh Nagar is among the 19 red zones in Uttar Pradesh.
Noida, meanwhile, got another testing centre. At Sharda Hospital, a new centre to conduct RT-PCR (reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction) test, the conventional test for Covid-19, was approved by the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NAand the Indian Council of Medical Research on Wednesday.
“It is the first private medical college in Uttar Pradesh to set up a Covid testing lab,” a hospital official said. Commercial testing is expected to begin in a day or two. “We will be charging Rs 2,500 for a test. We are hoping to get reports within 12-24 hours of the test,” said a hospital spokesperson.
TB patient on road
In Dadri, a man admitted to GIMS in Greater Noida 10 days ago was found lying by the side of the road near the Community Health Centre with Covid-like symptoms.
The patient, Rajender Kumar, had been admitted to the health facility on April 20 after residents reported to the health department that he had been sick. Rajender is homeless and has pulmonary tuberculosis. He was tested and the results showed he did not have Covid-19, the hospital said. So they discharged him on Thursday.
Residents spotted him, abandoned on the road. A video, meanwhile, went viral and the health department took note.“An inquiry under the additional district magistrate has been ordered. Strict action will be taken against the ambulance and other personnel responsible for this,” chief medical officer said.
(With inputs from Abhishek Awasthi)
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