NMC health worker among 20 to tests +ve

Nagpur: Yet another Covid Warrior tested positive for the disease on Monday. A 21-year-old worker who was in Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) team which detected 127 positive cases from Satranjipura himself tested positive. Thirty seven doctors and staff were tested and they quarantined at home awaiting reports.
The 21-year-old man was working in epidemic department of NMC Satranjipura zone. He was engaged in multiple works like data entry, supplying masks, sanitizers to health workers, doing door-to-door survey in Satranjipura and Naik Talao-Bangladesh, accompanying doctors for contact tracing and quarantining people.
He contracted the virus from containment zones and had fever on May 23. He took leave assuming some problems due to heatstroke. Three days ago, he resumed work. Doctors advised him to give swab sample and he got tested at a special camp organized at Vaishali Nagar on Sunday.
His reports came positive from IGGMCH. He is a resident of Wathoda in East Nagpur which is a non-containment zone and no case has been registered from this area. Immediately, 37 doctors and staff from Satranjipura including zonal medical officer gave swab samples and went on home quarantine.
Reports of all staff will be known on Tuesday. This team was continuously working since Satranjipura was notified as containment zone on April 6 after death of a 68-year-old man from Badi Masjid area.
On Sunday, a medical officer of Zilla Parishad and a paramedical personnel from state’s health department, both working under NMC, at MLA Hostel institutional quarantine centre had tested positive.
Nineteen more persons tested positive on Monday increasing the number of cases from the district to 561. NMC did not take cognizance of a 27-year-old air passenger testing positive at Rajura in Chandrapur district citing lack of official communication. The patient was working at Goregaon Film City and landed at Nagpur airport on May 25. He went to his hometown Rajura and was quarantined.
More than 2,200 persons landed at Nagpur airport between May 25 and 31 of whom 1,367 are from the city. NMC is screening all passengers of the city at airport. They are contacted on second day about having any symptoms and stickers are pasted at their homes to ensure quarantine. NMC also monitors whether all are maintaining quarantine or not.