Nagpur: Six of same family positive, shifted to MLA Hostel Covid care centre

NAGPUR: The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has shifted another six members of a family to MLA Hostel Covid care centre (CCC) after all of them tested positive in the last couple of days.
Top civic health officials said three of the family members from Dhantoli zone tested positive on July 3. This mandated the testing of three immediate high risk close contacts who too tested positive a day later. As per officials, they don’t have travel history though it was being said the family had travelled to one of the districts in Maharashtra still reporting high positivity.
All are asymptomatic and doing well, officials said. The NMC zone officials traced and tested around 70 more high risk close contact but they tested negative in RTPCR. Like the two samples of another family from the same zone, the civic officials have sent these six samples to NEERI.
On June 4, TOI had reported that the NMC has also decided to study the samples of patients if they belong to same chain of infection and test positive at the same time.
The trend of entire family testing was seen during the peak of second wave between March and early May.
Last week, the Dhantoli zone medical team had shifted six persons to MLA Hostel CCC. They had tested positive following their return from Kolhapur, which is among the seven districts in the state where the delta plus variant has been detected.
The NMC then requested the CSIR-NEERI lab led by Dr Krishna Khairnar to examine the six cases too.
The saline gargle RTPCR samples of only five were collected and handed over to NEERI team. Of these, only two tested positive whose sequencing quality RNA extracts were prepared by NEERI and forwarded to CCMB Hyderbad. The results are awaited.
The genome sequencing is part of active surveillance and containment measure in the wake of Delta Plus variant spread.