Super spreader trader sent to jail from hospital

Varanasi: The drugs wholesaler of Saptsagar medicine market, who proved to be super spreader of coronavirus in Varanasi, landed in the temporary jail created for epidemic offenders in Jagatpur area after getting discharged from DDU district hospital on Thursday.
In Varanasi, where no new Covid-19 positive case was reported on Thursday till late evening, the series of discharging of cured positive cases from the hospitals continued.
The medicine wholesaler was discharged from DDU district hospital’s isolation ward after getting cured. District magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma said that as an FIR was lodged against him and he was taken to temporary jail under judicial custody.
This drugs wholesaler has been tested positive on April 25 when district administration ordered closure of drugs wholesale markets. Later he infected 12 more persons including four in his family, his employee, traders in neighbouring shops and customers. Due to it Madauli, Saptsagar, Maidagin Mahmoorganj and many other localities were declared hotspots.
On April 30, an FIR against the drugs wholesaler was lodged with Manduadih police station under section 269 (negligent act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life), 270 and 271 (disobedience to quarantine rule) of IPC.
The drugs wholesale market, which is among three depots of state including Lucknow and Ghaziabad and feeds semi-distributors and retailers of medicines across east UP, parts of Bihar and some other states, could be opened on May 4 with the condition of opening maximum 190 shops in the market in a day. Due to it, the medicine supplies to city retailers as well as other places could not normalise so far.