Ghaziabad: Two of five tourists, who recently returned from abroad and were found to have Covid, were dismissed from the Noida Covid Hospital on Tuesday after their RT-PCR reports were negative.
Both patients were a woman who had returned from England and a five-year-old girl who had returned to Noida with her mother from a trip to Singapore.
Members of the two families – one of the men, his wife and a five-year-old boy who returned from England and others consisting of a five-year-old woman and daughter from Singapore – treated at the Sector 39 hospital on Sunday night.
The test results were carried out that day on Tuesday.
Dr.
Tritya Saxena, the medical supervisor of the Noida Covid Hospital, said, “While two of them were tested negatively, the other would still recover.
Covid tests from the remaining patients will be done again after two days.
Everything does not show symptoms.” Meanwhile, The Ministry of Health, has intensified contact contacts from five tourists.
“Usually, it can be seen that people who return from abroad are positive covid and often threaten to spread infection.
But in the case of a family that returns from England, instead.
They come into contact with Covid patients,” said a senior health official.
The department is also waiting for the genome sequencing report from patients received.
Their sample was sent to the National Disease Control Center in Delhi on Monday.
Officials said the report was expected in the next 7-10 days.
“The report will go state government and then sent to us if there is a new variant detected,” the official said.
On Tuesday, Noida did not report a new case.
There are 24 active cases in this district, which only after Lucknow.
So far, 35 Covid cases have been reported in Noida this month.