G’gram sees 10 new cases in a day, tally touches 30

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G’gram sees 10 new cases in a day, tally touches 30

Thursday, 09 April 2020 | Parvesh Sharma | Gurugram

The Gurugram district on Wednesday recorded 10 new cases of COVID-19, the highest in a single day so far.

Health official said all the new patients are Tablighi Jamaat members and hail from Una and Solan districts in Himachal Pradesh.

With the addition of these new positive patients, the total number of coronavirus cases in Gurugram rose to 30. Nearly 14 of these are Jamaat members, who returned from the event in Delhi's Nizamuddin Markaz in March.

A team of health officials and district administration received information about 16 Jamaat members who were hiding in Sohna’s Raipur village. The teams swung into action and isolated all of them at the hospital in Nuh district for further treatment.

"We have received 10 fresh positive cases in the district on Wednesday. All the patients had participated in the Jamaat meet. We have quarantined all of them immediately at the hospital where their samples were collected for COVID-19 testing in which 10 out of 16 tested positive. We will now quarantine the entire Raipur village and sanitize the village as well,” said Dr Jaswant Singh Punia, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Gurugram.

The spike in COVID-19 cases were due to many Tablighi Jamaat members testing positive for the disease, said a health official.

According to health officials, a total of 21 people have tested positive including 10 new cases in Gurugram in which 9 patients have recovered so far and have been discharged.

Apart from this, the Haryana government has already given a 24-hour deadline to Jamaat members to report their whereabouts to the nearest police station, or else face criminal prosecution.

The district health department has already designated SGT medical college as a quarantine centre which has around 300 beds as a precautionary measure in the wake of the deadly coronavirus outbreak. The department has also prepared 500 beds an isolation centre at Sector-9 PG collage.

The health department also have quarantine wards in Sector-10 hospital and tied up with private hospitals in the city for carrying out quarantine procedures.

Apart from this Chief Secretary Keshni Anand Arora has directed officers to make an aggressive containment plan in their respective districts to stop community transmission.

She has also directed the police department to appoint a supervisory officer in each district for the areas which have been quarantined so that a close watch can be kept on the people during the isolation period and even after it.

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