4-year-old girl, 1 other test corona positive in Prayagraj

Prayagraj: With two more people, including daughter of a tehsildar who is a Covid-19 patient and undergoing treatment, testing positive on Sunday, the Prayagraj district tally reached 65. Moreover, a 22-year old youth from Handia, who had returned from Mumbai recently and was lodged at a quarantine centre in city, died although he had tested negative for Covid-19 on May 20. His body has been sent for postmortem to ascertain the cause of death.
Nodal officer and additional chief medical officer Dr. Rishi Sahai said ,“Two more persons including four-year-old daughter of tehsildar posted at Soraon and a 55-year-old woman from Saraymamrez were tested positive on Sunday.”
The 40-year-old tehsildar posted in Soraon had tested positive for infection on Saturday. The wife and son of the tehsildar tested negative for the infection.
Dr. Sahai said, “Both the tehsildar and his daughter were admitted at SRN hospital for treatment. The condition of the tehsildar, who was earlier admitted at Covid Level One hospital and later shifted to SRN hospital on Sunday, was stated to be normal.” Till now, the district has a total of 38 active cases. While 24 patients have recovered and discharged from hospital, three patients have died of coronavirus infection. “The woman who tested positive for coronavrious infection on Sunday was in touch with a group of people who had arrived city from Mumbai on 17 in a village in trans-Ganga area,” said a senior health official adding, “The husband of the woman had tested positive for the infection last week,” he added.
The department had collected a total of 112 samples on Saturday and two of them came out positive on Sunday.
On Sunday, officials of health department also collected samples of a total of 150 migrants in trans-Ganga area. Majority of migrants had come from Mumabi. Dr. Sahai said, “We have launched a special campaign, ‘Operation city,’ to test migrants who have arrived in city limits from Mumbai and are staying in slums in city area. Under this project, the officials of health department have collected a total of 55 samples of migrants from Sultanpur Bhava and Sadar Bazaar localities on Sunday. All these 55 people are migrants and had arrived from Mumbai.”
Besides, officials of health department have also uploaded the details of over 61,482 migrants on portal. Officials have also issued helpline number, 0532-2641577, 0532-2641578 and 7458825340.