Patient count touches 500 mark in Uttarakhand

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Patient count touches 500 mark in Uttarakhand

Friday, 29 May 2020 | PNS | Dehradun

The migrants propelled curve representing the number of novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) affected patients in Uttarakhand hit the 500 figure mark on Thursday. On the day 31 new patients of the disease were detected by the state health department.

In Tehri district, 10 new patients were reported while nine patients surfaced in Dehradun. In Haridwar, eight patients were reported while three new cases of the disease were found in Almora district. One case of the disease was reported in Nanital district. In Tehri, all the 10 patients reported are from a quarantine centre located in Dhalwala near Rishikesh town.

All these were kept in quarantine after their return from Maharashtra.

 It is learnt that 32 inmates of this quarantine centre have been reported positive so far.  In Dehradun, three vegetable vendors of Nirajanpur sabji mandi were found positive on the day.

Death of a 19 years old youth of Uttarkashi district at Government Doon Medical College (GDMC) hospital on Thursday sent the health authorities in tizzy. The youth was kept in quarantine at an Anganwadi centre of his village in Purola block of Uttarkashi after his return from Hyderabad.

On complaint of chest pain he was admitted in district hospital Uttarkashi and was sent to GDMC Dehradun when his condition deteriorated.

 On Thursday he died in Dehradun. The authorities however were relieved when his sample was tested negative for Covid-19 later in the day. In Haridwar all the eight patients found on Thursday have a travel history from Maharashtra.

The additional secretary, state health department, Yugal Kishore Pant said that 417 migrants who recently returned to the state have been found positive for the disease. He added that 84 percent of these returnees found Covid-19 positive are from Maharashtra and Delhi. He said that reports of 825 samples were found negative for the disease on Thursday.  He added that reports of 4231 samples are still awaited by the department. On Thursday, a total of 1068 samples were collected for COVID -19 testing.

 The authorities have so far taken swab samples of 25380 suspected patients for COVID-19 test.  Out of the total samples taken, 2.48 percent samples have been found positive for the disease. Uttarakhand now has 414 active cases of the disease. The Nainital district is at top of the table with 126 active cases.

The Tehri district is at second spot with 62 active cases. Provisional state capital Dehradun is at third position with 51 active cases while Udham Singh Nagar district has 38 active cases. Pauri and Almora districts now have 21 active cases each while Pithoragarh has 20 active cases of the disease. Chamoli has 11 active patients while Uttarkashi has nine active cases. Bageshwar and Champawat districts have eight active cases each while Rudrapryag district has three active patients of the disease.

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