First Delta+ patient in Faridabad district recovers at home

Bijendra Ahlawat

Tribune News Service

Faridabad, June 26

A 25-year-old youth, who was detected as the first case of the Delta Plus variant of Covid mutant in the district, has recovered and none of his family members has been found infected, though samples of all his kin have been collected again as a precautionary measure.

Revealing that the youth hailed from the Ballabgarh area and was working with a private company in Delhi, Civil Surgeon Dr Randeep Singh Poonia said he had been found Covid-positive on April 30 after he travelled to and attended a function in New Delhi.

“With normal fever and cough symptoms, the patient recovered in routine after home isolation and medication advised by doctors. The disclosure about his infection from the newest variant (Delta Plus) surfaced after a genome sequencing test taken up by the ESIC hospital here as part of a research project in which the sample of this person was found to be positive.”

Total 165 samples had been collected for random sequencing, of which 164 were found to be negative,’’ said Dr Asim Das, dean, ESIC Medical College and Hospital, here. He added that the matter was not of grave concern as the person had already recovered with no more cases of this kind.

Claiming that while samples of all other five members of his family had been collected for a fresh test, Dr Ram Bhagat, district nodal officer, Covid, said extensive tracing, testing and treatment had been taken up of all primary, secondary and extended contacts of the person so that there was no chance of further spread. He said 5 per cent of the samples collected for routine tests were marked for genome sequencing. The area of residence of this case had been put under surveillance and all persons having fever were being traced and tested, besides increasing vaccination.

Contact tracing on

Chandigarh: Health Minister Anil Vij on Saturday said the state had ordered the contact tracing of the Faridabad patient detected with Delta plus variant. Responding to the Centre’s letter to the states to create a containment zone to contain the new variant, Vij said the state had already told the officials concerned to do so and conduct testing on a large scale. TNS