17 new cases in city, five from one family

Noida: Six from Bhangel village, of whom five are from one family, a healthcare professional, a police officer from the Sector 14A control room, and three others tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday. With these 17 cases, Noida has 470 now, 164 of them active.
The five patients from one family include a 35-year-old man, a 32-year-old woman and three children — 10, 12 and 15 years old. Another unrelated patient from the village is a 14-year-old girl. Barring two — a 57-year-old woman from Sector 94B and a 56-year-old man from Beta 1 — all others were younger than 50. That includes a 23-year-old man from Bishanpur village, a 21-year-old man from Sector 37, a 28-year-old man from Gaur City, a 32-year-old man from Sector 46, a 42-year-old man from Sector 45, a 26-year-old man from Sector 36 and a 32-year-old man from Piyawali village in Greater Noida. The district cross-notified 29 patients to other districts.
Besides the 17 who were added to the Noida tally, a couple and their four-year-old son, residents of Sector 119, tested positive on Monday. They work at two news channels, both at Film City in Sector 16A, and had got themselves tested at a private lab in Delhi. “The man got the infection from a colleague and had mild cough and fever. The woman and child were asymptomatic. They declared their case status to the district health department,” said the maintenance manager of the society where they live.
They have been admitted to the isolation ward at Kailash Hospital in Greater Noida but the cases have not been added to the Covid tally yet. The couple also has a full-time domestic staffer living with them, who will be tested.