Nine more test +ve in city, 13 in Fbd

Gurgaon: Nine more people were tested positive for Covid-19 in Gurgaon on Tuesday, taking the number of cases in the district to 219. Among these patients are two residents from Ravi Nagar, three from Sector 10A and one each from Sirhaul, Palam Vihar, Daultabad and Shivaji Nagar.
According to the health department, most of them came in touch with contacts of those who had earlier tested positive for the disease. “Majority of these cases are linked to close contacts of Covid-19 patients. We are tracing the contacts,” said a senior health officer, adding that these patients are undergoing treatment at the ESIC hospital in Sector 9.
The health officer also said the patient from Shivaji Nagar has link with the city’s Khandsa mandi. “As the city is recording many cases in unauthorised colonies, we are planning to conduct more tests in these areas and actively tracing their contacts,” he said.
People with influenza-like symptoms are also being monitored in urban slum clusters, according to the health department. The district administration is likely to increase containment zones in the city as cases are going up in several areas. At present, the city has 32 containment zones.
So far, 16,081 people have been put under surveillance in the district, of which 13,620 people have completed their 28-day quarantine period. The health department has sent 10,231 samples for testing, of which 9,717 turned out to be negative, while the results of 294 are still awaited.
Four cops among new cases in Faridabad
In Faridabad, 13 more people were tested positive for Covid-19. Now, the district’s total tally is 163. Those tested positive include four policemen aged 29, 33, 45 and 54 years. While the 33-year-old, 29-year-old and the 54-year-old are posted at Sector 55 police station, the 45-year-old cop is attached to Saran police station. All four of them had come in contact with Covid-19 patients.
A 25-year-old journalist working with a news channel in Noida also tested positive on Tuesday. Another patient is a 21-year-old healthcare worker at a private hospital who had come in contact with a person died of Covid-19. An 18-year-old boy, who is a contact of a Covid patient, also contracted the disease.
“While 13 were tested positive for Covid-19, nine patients were discharged after recovery on Tuesday. Out of 163 cases, we have 65 active cases left,” said a health department official.
A three-year-old girl suffering from fever for four to five days also tested positive. Her father is an accountant in Delhi and the mother is a housewife. Moreover, samples of two others — a 22-year-old and a 49-year-old man — also contracted the infection. However, these two patients are yet to be traced due to discrepancy in their addresses and phone numbers.
Other patients include a 62-year-old man, a resident of NIT-5, who had fever for four days. He had earlier visited a hospital in Delhi. A 13-year-old girl, a resident of Milhard Colony, who is the primary contact of a Covid patient was also tested positive. A 60-year-old woman, a resident of Dabua colony also contracted the disease on Tuesday.