Five more Covid-19 cases detected in AHRCC

Cuttack: Five more Covid-19 positive cases have been detected from Acharya Harihar Regional Cancer Centre (AHRCC) on Saturday. With this, the total number of infected cases in the hospital went up to 62.
The hospital was sealed on Friday and the premises sanitised on Saturday.
“A team collected swab samples from people after active contact tracing of the infected persons was undertaken. A team is also tracing the attendants who had come to AHRCC from different districts,” said collector (Cuttack) Bhabani Shankar Chayani.
Once traced, the attendants will be asked to stay in quarantine. “After contact tracing most of the people have been kept in the isolation ward of AHRCC and swab samples were collected for testing,” he added.
On Thursday, 55 people who tested positive have been shifted to Covid hospitals in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack. Those who were negative are in quarantine in the isolation ward.
Official sources said 13 fresh Covid-19 cases have been detected in Cuttack in the past 24 hours taking the number of infected in the district to 715 on Saturday.
Out of the 13, five are from AHRCC, six from a private nursing home in Chauliaganj, one each from the Badamba and Athagarh localities.