Doctor from Nashik city’s private hospital tests positive

Tushar Pawar | TNN | Updated: May 5, 2020, 10:20 IST

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NASHIK: A 42-year-old woman, who is a doctor in a city-based private hospital, has tested Covid-19 positive.
The Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) has isolated five of her family members from the Vrindavan Colony in General Vaidya Nagar, near the Bhaba Nagar area of the city. The civic body has also sealed the containment areas in General Vaidya Nagar.
NMC officials said the doctor had come in contact with a Covid-19 patient while working in the hospital. “We have quarantined her associate doctors and other medical staff in the hospital and have sent their throat swabs to the lab for testing. We are also tracing the high-risk contacts. We have already isolated her family members and sent their swabs,” said official.
With this new case, the total number of positive patients in the city has risen to 17. The number includes three doctors, one pharmacist and two police personnel. The NMC had earlier sealed 10 containment zones in the city, including four on Saturday. Now there are 11 containment zones in the city. “We have sanitized the containment area in Vrindavan Colony. Moreover, health department teams have been formed to conduct a door-to-door survey in the containment area,” the officials said.
NMC health teams conducted a survey of 98 houses in the containment areas, covering a population of 486. Fogging and spraying activities were also undertaken on Monday.
On Saturday, the NMC had sealed four containment zones, including three in the Cidco division of the city — Savta Nagar, Uttam Nagar and Pathardi Phata — and one in Satpur colony after six new patients, including a rural cop, a civil hospital doctor and a pharmacist, had tested positive.