Gurugram: A positive passenger from England to Covid-19 on arrival at Indira Gandhi International Airport on Monday, leaving two insulation centers in Delhi to make himself accepted at the Medanta Gurugram hospital in the early hours of Tuesday and finally tracked by Delhi Police and brought back to isolation facilities in the capital.
It is not yet clear whether the patient is infected with the Omicron variant of SARS-COV-2, but District Administrative Officials say they are unable to risk anything.
The 30-year-old man is a resident of DLF-1.
Upon his return from England, the swab sample was positive, after he was taken to the LNJP hospital and suggested institutional isolation.
The patient insisted that he would bear the cost of self-care and was taken in an ambulance to a private hospital in Saket.
However, in a few hours, the man left the facility too and came to Medanta with the help of his relatives.
“The patient told us that he had tested the positive Covid, showed the documents and was hospitalized.
Then, the police Delhi took him back to the center of isolation in the capital,” said Dr.
Sushila Kataria, an intensive care expert in Medanta.
Patients are currently being treated at Max Saket, which has been designated as an isolation center.
Asked why the patient was brought back to Delhi, he said, “There are eight insulation centers where international tourists who test positive Covid are being isolated until the sequencing of their genome reveals their variant is infected.
None of the Gurugram Hospital is in the list.
Therefore, patients It must be taken to one of the centers.
“In accordance with the direction of the Ministry of Health Union, officials should guide swab samples from each leaflet and isolate them in separate units of institutional facilities if they are found positive.
Their contact also needs to be traced immediately, according to the guidelines.
The Ministry of Health said that since November 26, a total of 5,910 tourists arrived in the city, including 1,326 coming from ‘risky’ countries and currently in house isolation.