Lucknow: Two more patients from the Zika virus who live in a 2 km radius are reported in the city on Wednesday.
With this, the city has reported a total of five Zika virus patients in seven days since the first two cases were reported on November 11.
Meanwhile, the city also reported 27 new bloody fever patients in various regions.
New Zika patients, residents of Lda Colony, Kanpur Road and Azadnagar, are a 71-year-old man and a 42-year-old government employee.
While both of these patients and the first patient, who is a 24-year-old girl from the Sambhal Kheda area on Kanpur road, all are within a radius of two kilometers, they have no relationship or contact with each other, health officials said.
“Two new patients did not have a history of travel and insulated cases.
They individually visited the Joint Hospital of Lokebarhu Raj Narayan on November 15 after experiencing a lightweight fever that subsided with drugs.
On Wednesday, their positive reports for the Zika virus, but Both are now asymptomatic and in their homes, “said the district supervision officer, Dr.
Milind Vardhan.
Samples of nine close contact of the two new patients were taken by the team from the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) office on Wednesday.
A sample of 51 symptomatic people who lived in and around the home of the first three patients, were also taken and sent to the medical university of King George (KgMu) for testing.
From the previous samples taken from these areas, reports 113 came negatively for the Zika virus on Wednesday.
Until now, no one was tested positively in contacting contacts from the first three Zika virus patients.
In front of dengue fever, 27 more positive cases were reported from Malihabad, Turigaj, Mall, Silver Jubilee, Indiranagar, Alambagh, Aliganj, NK Road, Gosainganj and Aishbagh, areas that continued to report the majority of cases of dengue fever in the city.
Eight houses in Rajajipuram, Ayodhyadas Ward, Jankipuram, Rajiv Gandhi Ward I and II, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Ward, Chitragupt Nagar Ward and Shankarpurwa, were issued by the CMO team because it had conductive conditions for the growth of a disease that caused mosquitoes.