106 +ve in two days, Mominpura surpasses Satranjipura

Nagpur: The city has registered 106 positive Covid-19 cases in last two days. Number of corona positive from Mominpura, city’s second hotspot, increased to 119 with 85 new cases in just two days. Tally of Satranjipura is 114, including 12 in last two days.
Three Severe Acute Respiratory Illness (SARI) patients admitted at GMCH also tested positive on Thursday, increasing new cases (not from existing containment zones) to six. Three persons from Bada Tajbagh, Ganeshpeth and Khushi Nagar had tested positive on Wednesday. Areas of remaining three positive persons could not be known.
The district’s total cases increased to 267, of which 87.2% cases are from Mominpura and Satranjipura. Meanwhile, four positive persons were discharged after recovering complete in last two days, increasing their numbers to 65.
Municipal commissioner Tukaram Mundhe on Thursday notified three more containment zones — Bada Tajbagh, Ganeshpeth and Khushi Nagar. The NMC has started to trace and quarantine family members and close contacts from these three areas.
Mundhe told TOI, “119 cases from Mominpura and 114 from Satranjipura are result of NMC’s mass quarantine model. One positive person can spread disease to over 400 persons as per Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). Thus, we succeeded in identifying positive cases and give them treatment in time. Also, model helped in preventing mass spread of Covid-19 to other areas.”
The cases from Mominpura swelled as the civic body’s team led by assistant commissioner Ashok Patil and zonal medical officer Dr Khwaja Moinuddin quarantined over 500 persons from Choodi Gully and Dobi Nagar in last one week. Reports of many quarantined persons are awaited.
In a major worry for NMC, positive patients have continued to come from different localities of Mominpura. A pregnant woman was admitted for delivery at IGGMCH on Wednesday from Lal Pathar area, from where no case had been registered till now. Earlier, a pregnant woman from Dobi Nagar had come for delivery, tested positive and some of her family members and close contacts also turned out to be positive.
After the death of 22-year-old from Parvati Nagar on Wednesday, 151 persons were quarantined. The NMC team led by assistant commissioner Kiran Bagde traced and quarantined another 80 persons on Thursday. Samples of all these were collected and reports will come in next few days.
GMCH doctors said, “Three patients were admitted for SARI treatment. As per ICMR guidelines, all patients having SARI are tested for Covid-19. We are regularly collecting samples and testing SARI patients. But for the first time, three of them have tested positive,” they said.
Their details, including localities of the three patients, could not be known. Sources from GMCH said the patients are from different areas and do not come under containment zones in existence.
This indicates Covid-19 is spreading into other parts of the city, with three more areas added to list of containment zones on Thursday. Till now, positive persons have been registered from 17 localities. If three SARI patients are identified from different localities, number will increase to 20.
Four RPF staffers ‘home quarantined’
Four staffers of Railway Protection Force (RPF) of Central Railway have been sent to home quarantine on Thursday by senior officials as a preventive measure.
The RPF personnel had gone for escort duty in one of the parcel trains. One of their colleagues from a different section later tested Covid-19 positive. In order to prevent spread, the RPF senior officials had asked the staffers to remain home quarantined at their respective barracks at Ajni and Motibagh.