125 Families Asked To Self-Isolate After 1st Coronavirus Case At Rashtrapati Bhavan Complex
125 families residing the Rashtrapati Bhawan complex in the national capital have been put under self-isolation after one person tested positive for COVID-19.?
According to reports, the COVID-19 positive patient is not a staffer at the Rashtrapati Bhawan but is a resident of the complex as her father-in-law is a sanitation worker there.?
"A relative of a resident of Rashtrapati Bhavan Estate Quarters died a few days ago. The person who has tested positive for the coronavirus on Sunday had attended the funeral," a source told IANS.?
The woman's mother had died of COVID-19 in her village recently and all of the family members had attended her funeral.The woman tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday all the other family members have tested negative.She has been sent to the quarantine centre in the nearby Birla Mandir complex.?
Following the development, all 125 families in the complex have been asked to self-isolate and 25 houses in the same block have been kept under strict isolation.This comes as the number of coronavirus cases in India crossed the 18,000 on Tuesday morning with 18,601 cases, including 590 deaths.?
The country recorded the biggest jump in the number of deaths in a day with 47 patients dying in the last 24 hours.With a total of 2081 active cases, 431 recoveries and 47 deaths so far Delhi is one of the worst-hit due to the pandemic.?
On Monday, the Delhi government added 5 more containment zones (red zones or hotspots) taking the total count of such areas to 84 in the national capital. These hotspots are Block 34 of Trilokpuri, Block - G of Jahangirpuri, Block AF of Shalimar Bagh, Flat number 265 to 500 of Sanjay Enclave and Lane 24-28 of Tughlakabad Extension.?
The Delhi government also started the use of rapid antibody testing kits in the red zones in the central district of the national capital. According to the health department, there a total of 42,000 such kits as of now which will be used for testing the presence of coronavirus antibodies in a patient. With the number of cases on the rise, the Delhi Government had said that there will be no immediate relaxation of the lockdown restrictions in the capital.?
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had said on Sunday that the COVID-19 was spreading very fast and it would be difficult to contain it if any relaxation in the lockdown was given in the capital at this point in time.
