3 of Rohtak’s 4 Covid cases visited Delhi hospitals

Tribune News Service

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Rohtak, April 24

The Rohtak district administration has asked residents planning to visit any Delhi hospital for treatment or accompanying anyone for the purpose to inform the local health authorities in advance. Three of the four residents of Rohtak district found Covid-positive had visited Delhi hospitals recently.

“Residents of Rohtak undergoing treatment from any Delhi hospital must get their details registered with the Rohtak Civil Surgeon or on helpline numbers 01262-281031 and 7027816559,” Rohtak Deputy Commissioner-cum-District Magistrate RS Verma ordered on Friday.

The district health authorities had recently asked Rohtak residents who had visited Maharaja Agarsen Hospital in Punjabi Bagh, New Delhi, to report to the Civil Hospital or call on helpline numbers as several persons who had visited the said hospital were found Covid-positive.

DC halts procurement

Meanwhile, the district administration has created a containment area in Sampla township of Rohtak district after a local resident tested positive for Covid. The nearby areas have also been put under the buffer zone. Rohtak Deputy Commissioner RS Verma has stopped procurement/purchase of wheat and mustard at the local grain markets with immediate effect as a precautionary measure.

500 home quarantined

Nearly 500 residents of the area in which the Covid-positive man was staying have also been home quarantined. The houses in the ward have been sanitised and 10 medical teams have been deployed to screen and take samples of the local residents. The 35-year-old man belongs to Uttar Pradesh and was working at a plywood factory in Sampla. After the lockdown, he started selling vegetables to earn a livelihood. The people who came in contact with him were being traced, screened and quarantined.