Ghaziabad: Four people, including two doctors who recently arrived from Kenya and Russia, have been positively tested for Covid-19 on Wednesday.
Chief Medical Officer Dr.
Bhavtosh Shankhdhar said all patients were asymptomatic but had been accepted at the Covid isolation facility in Santosh Hospital as a precautionary measure.
According to health officials, Russia Returnee has received a dose of sputnik vaccine and a booster dose, while the other two are students from larger noida schools but the residents of Ghaziabad, including the Republican crossroads that have seen nine Covid cases.
The district has recorded 30 new cases in December so far, which is the highest since August when 26 cases were reported.
The number of active cases stands at 26.
On Wednesday, Dr.
RK District Supervision Officer Gupta said the sample of the two doctors, who visited Ghaziabad and stayed in a separate hotel, has been sent to the sequencing of the genome, while the camp has been arranged by the Ministry of Health to inspect hotel employees and Other guests.
Kenya and Russia are not in the list of “risky” countries, he said.
Officials said doctors aged 52 years from Bihar, who practiced in Russia had reached their home country on December 5 and came to Ghaziabad on December 11.
He lives in a hotel in Indirapuram and plans to return to Russia.
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Patients, officials said, have received a dose of sputnik vaccine and a booster dose.
While the vaccination status of Kenya Returnee was unknown, officials said he was a resident of Nagpur and also stayed at Indirapuram Hotel.
The hotel staff has told the health department about patients.
The doctor planned to go to Colombo immediately, officials added.
Meanwhile, both minors, both of them were 14 years old, who were tested positive for Covid, including between other patient contacts and used to take the same bus to school in Greater Noida.
According to officials, one of the patients is a resident of the housing community at the intersection of the Republic and others near Lal Kuan.
The Ministry of Health has now written a letter to their colleagues in Gautam Budh Nagar for examining school staff, other students who live in their districts and members of their family.
Officials also traced school students living in Ghaziabad.