Prayagraj: Five more test corona +ve, dist tally now 26

PRAYAGRAJ: Five migrants who recently returned to Prayagraj from Mumbai were among the new novel coronavirus (Covid-19) cases reported from the district on Thursday. The new cases took Prayagraj district’s tally to 26.
The five patients included four members of a family. They returned from Mumbai on different dates.
While four of them are residents of Lagadiapur area, the fifth one lives in Jhunsi. They are undergoing treatment at Covid-19 Level One Hospital in Kotwa. Additional chief medical officer and nodal officer Dr Rishi Sahai said, “ The four members of a family — a couple and their two teenage children — arrived in the city on May 12 and went straight to Swaroop Rani Nehru Hospital.”
As the four were experiencing symptoms similar to novel coronavirus, they were referred to the hospital’s isolation ward. However, they got scared and fled the hospital campus. They went back to their village in Lagadiapur Kanwar area of Sarayinayat.
On May 13, a team of medical officials brought them back to SRN Hospital and collected their samples on Wednesday. They tested positive for novel coronavirus on Thursday.
“While the man and his wife are 33 and 31 years of age, their kids are 11 and 12 years old. They arrived in the city from Mumbai in an autorickshaw,” said a health department official.
A 25-year-old Jhunsi resident, who arrived from Mumbai on May 8, was quarantined at SRN Hospital’s isolation ward. His swab sample was collected on Wednesday and he tested positive on Thursday.
With the new cases, Lagadipur Kanwar in Sarayinayat and Kaseruwa Khurd in Jhunsi were added to list of hotspots in Prayagraj.
Till now, Prayagraj has reported 26 cases, of which one patient has died and eight have recovered. The other 17 are undergoing treatment at Covid-19 Level One Hospital in Kotwa and SRN Hospital.