Gurgaon: Results of the remaining 15 residents who have returned from the
UK after December 8 turned out to be negative on Thursday when RT-PCR tests were carried out. Even then, as a precautionary measure, the health department has started tracing their contacts.
The health department said that it has conducted RT-PCR tests on 369 people who arrived in the city from the UK from December 8 till December 22 and so far 368 people are negative.
One person who came positive in the RT-PCR test is in an isolation centre in Sector 22 and his genome sequencing report is pending. As many as 32 passengers are untraceable due to incorrect addresses or mobile numbers and they are under police radar.
Gurgaon chief medical officer Virender Yadav, “We have got RT-PCR results of all the UK
returnees that could trace and only one person was found positive. We are still waiting for his genome sequencing report from Delhi. Our teams are monitoring all these people who are at present under home isolation to ensure that if they develop symptoms they are put in a different isolation centre.”
With 61 cases, the city on Thursday reported less than 100 cases for the 7th day in a row, taking the tally to 56,791. The health department said 97 patients recovered on the day, bringing the total number of recoveries to 55,509. No one succumbed to the infection on Thursday. So far, 343 people in the city have died of Covid.