Confirmed Cases Of Coronavirus In India Reaches 29, Over A Hundred Under Observation In Bihar

The total number confirmed cases of Coronavirus (Covid-19) in India has reached 29 as one more person in Gurugram tested positive for the infection. The latest positive case is an employee of Paytm in Gurugram.

According to the company, the employee who works in the Gurugram office had recently returned from a vacation in Italy. "One of our colleagues based out of Gurgaon office who recently returned from Italy has sadly been tested positive for Coronavirus. He is receiving appropriate treatment. As a precautionary measure, we have suggested his team members to get health tests done immediately," the company said in a statement.

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Following the development, the company has advised its employees to work from home for the next couple of days while the Gurugram unit gets sanitised.

The previous case which was also confirmed in NCR was a man who had recently returned from Italy. He had then visited his relatives in Agra and six members of the family have since tested positive for Covid-19. Authorities are also trying to identify everyone who the individual had come into contact with since his return.

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Rajasthan Health Minister Raghu Sharma said that at least 215 people came in contact with the Covid-19 affected group of Italian tourists that had visited various places in the state. Samples of 93 people have been taken, out of which 51 have been tested negative whereas reports of 41 others are still pending.

India saw a massive spike in the number of Covid-19 cases after the Italian tourists and their driver tested positive. With 107 deaths so far Italy has the most number of fatalities to the viral infection outside China, which has registered more than 3000 deaths since December.

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Meanwhile in Bengaluru where the techie from Hyderabad who tested positive for Covid-19 worked, five more people have been admitted to the isolation wards of Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases.

The Karnataka government has advised city-based companies to allow their employees to work from home if they have flu-like symptoms.

"Those employees having flu-like symptoms may be allowed to work from home with advice of standard hand hygiene and cough etiquette," the Health Department said in its advisory.

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In Bihar, fourteen people including five from Siwan and four from Gopalganj who had recently returned from coronavirus-hit Iran have been quarantined. They have been kept in isolation for 14 days in the hospital. The state surveillance system has so far identified 121 people who have arrived from places hit by a coronavirus and they were enrolled for observation.