Ward boy of private hospital in Patna tests positive for coronavirus

A 20-year-old man, who worked as a ward boy at a private hospital where he came into contact with a COVID-19 patient, has tested positive, taking total number of such cases reported from Bihar to seven, health department said on Friday. According to a health department official, a 38-year-old man from Munger district who died at AIIMS, Patna, last week before his test results confirmed that he was suffering from COVID-19, was first admitted to private hospital situated in Khemnichak locality of city which has since been sealed.

district administration ordered all doctors, nurses and or staff of facility to be quarantined. Samples of 13 people working at private hospital were sent for testing and result of one that of ward boy hailing from Jaganpura area in city was found positive. Efforts were on to trace or staff of private hospital who would be quarantined as a precautionary measure and ir samples will be sent for testing, official said.

tably, Bihar had reported zero coronavirus positive cases until Sunday when deceased patient from Munger who had returned from Qatar where he worked as a welder and a woman resident of city who is admitted to AIIMS, Patna, tested positive.

re has been a spike in number of cases since n with seven persons testing positive in less than a week. On Thursday, two persons a woman in her 40s and a 12-year- old boy who lived in a house adjacent to that of deceased patient in Munger had tested positive. y have been sent to a hospital in Bhagalpur for treatment. Samples of more than 50 people living in vicinity, however, tested negative.

Besides, two men in ir 20s, both residents of different localities of Patna, one having returned from Scotland and or from Gujarat, have tested positive and are undergoing treatment at NMCH. Till Thursday, 469 samples from across state had been sent for testing out of which 415 reported negative and three were rejected. Reports of remaining were awaited. In state capital, about 2000 people who returned from abroad or or parts of country before nationwide lockdown came into force have been put in home quarantine as a precautionary measure.