Two nursing officers at Delhi State Cancer Institution have tested positive for COVID-19.?They have a contact history with the doctor who tested positive.
Delhi State Cancer Institution was shut down for a day after a doctor working at the hospital tested positive for COVID-19, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said on Wednesday.
"The doctor visited her brother's house recently, who had returned from the United Kingdom a few days back. Hospital has been shut and it is being disinfected," Jain had told ANI.
The state Health Minister added that people who came in the doctor's contact will be isolated.?
The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Thursday said that there are 2,069 coronavirus positive cases in India, including 1,860 active cases, 156 cured/discharged/migrated people and 53 deaths.
On April 2, a resident doctor from Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences tested positive for coronavirus.
According to sources, the doctor had attended a farewell ceremony at work, days before he was tested positive. Search is on for people who the doctor had come in contact with.
The same day, three doctors in Delhi had also tested positive for COVID-19, two of them are from Safdarjung Hospital. One of the two doctors is a third-year postgraduate student who had recently returned from Dubai.
Less than ten days ago, two mohalla clinic doctors were also tested positive for coronavirus. The wife and daughter of one the mohalla clinic doctors were also tested positive for COVID-19.
Doctors have earlier said that lack of safety gar is putting them at risk of catching the infection.??