Gujarat: Three new positive Covid-19 cases in Chhota Udepur district; first in the rural area

VADODARA: After a gap of 18 days, Chhota Udepur district registered three new cases of coronavirus on Tuesday, taking the total number of cases in the district to 17.
According to health officials, 35 samples including one of an active case were sent to SSG Hospital in Vadodara for testing. Of these 35 samples, three tested positive. The trio is from Dharoliya village in Bodeli taluka and they had recently returned from Mumbai where they used to work as labourers. The three new cases are the first to be registered in a village in Chhota Udepur district. The previous 14 cases were from Bodeli and Chhota Udepur towns.
As the trio has tested positive, they will be admitted at the special Covid-19 isolation ward in Chhota Udepur town. On learning about the positive cases, the district collector and other senior officials of the administration visited Bodeli taluka to take stock of the situation in Dharoliya village and deliberated on cluster containment.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday evening the only active patient till Monday was discharged as his test reports arrived negative. Ranger was admitted on April 22, but as his four consecutive test reports turned out to be positive, he remained under treatment.