Lucknow: Kasing Covid-19 Daily rose to 17 in the city on Wednesday – Increased manifold compared to only two cases recorded three days ago.
Among fresh cases, 12 were patients who came for medical consultations for several other diseases at the Outpatient Door facility (OPD) from Balrampur Hospital.
“All patients who came to the OPD were tested through the antigen method before consultation.
Twelve patients tested Covid-19 positive.
This belongs to various city regions,” said Deputy Chief of Medical Officer Dr Milind Vardhan.
“As soon as we receive a report, a drive is launched to test at least 25 contacts from each patient, so if anyone else is infected, it can be isolated earlier,” he added.
Five other people were also tested positively from various parts of the city, taking the case of the day to 17.
Abhishek District Judge Prakash also called a meeting to take stock situations and direct all hospitals to perform extensive filtering and testing patients who came to OPD.
It was also decided that the six-day randomized testing campaign will also be carried out in all government and private hospitals, airports and trains and buses.
Meanwhile, eight patients recovered in the last 24 hours.
The active case is now 57.
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Their samples have been sent to KgMu for genome sequencing.
Nurses, her husband and two children have returned from Kerala on July 30.
The family has been tested negatively in the test carried out three days before arrival.
He was tested again on August 2 before joining the service.
This report came as follows after family members and 122 other contacts were tested.
While family members are tested positively, reports of others become negative.
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Reason: The Ministry of Health divides most of the resources to routine children’s immunization.
This drive was carried out only in 23 private hospitals and several government district hospitals.
“The drive will continue on Thursday,” officials said.
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