16 'High Risk' Contacts Of COVID-19 Positive Delhi Pizza Delivery Boy Test Negative
The high-risk contacts of a Delhi pizza delivery boy who tested positive for COVID-19 have been tested negative.The 19-year-old pizza delivery agent who was working at a local pizza outlet in South Delhi had tested positive for the virus on April 14.?
The news had triggered a panic wave in Malviya Nagar and adjoining areas after it emerged that he had been showing symptoms of the infection for nearly 20 days.After he tested positive 72 families including that of his colleagues were put on quarantine.?
On Monday an official said that sixteen "high-risk contacts" of the delivery have tested negative for coronavirus."All 16 high-risk contacts of pizza delivery boy have tested negative. They are colleagues of the pizza delivery agent who was infected with coronavirus recently,¡± south Delhi District Magistrate B M Mishra told PTI.?
Mishra said the district administration has not conducted COVID-19 tests on members of 72 families as they have not shown any symptoms of the infection so far.?
The pizza delivery boy testing positive for COVID-19 had also raised questions about the safety of delivery agents at a time when more people are depending on their services due to the lockdown.?
Meanwhile, the Savitri Nagar area in Malviya Nagar where the pizza delivery boy lives was notified as a coronavirus containment zone. The area has now been added to the list of containment zones or the COVID-19 affected and high-risk areas to contain the spread of the infection.Following the identification of the Savitri Nagar area in Malviya Nagar as a containment zone, several houses have been sealed with immediate effect to contain the spread of the infection.?
Delhi government has decided not to give any relaxations in the ongoing lockdown restrictions in the Capital at least for a week, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Sunday. The decision was taken considering a sudden spike in COVID-19 cases, including many asymptomatic people. The CM said that out of the 736 samples collected on Saturday, 186 were found infected and all of them had not shown any symptoms.
With a total of 2003 positive cases and 45 deaths, Delhi is the second-worst affected state after Maharashtra.On Monday the Health Ministry said that India has recorded 17,265 coronavirus cases and 543 deaths so far due to COVID-19.?
The ministry also said that the duration of doubling rate for coronavirus which was 3.4 days before lockdown is now 7.5 days.It also said that no new cases reported from 59 districts in the last 14 days.??
