A 44-year-old woman tests positive for Covid-19 in Kalyani

Biswabrata Goswami

Statesman News Service

KRISHNAGAR, 26 APRIL;: A 44-year-old woman, admitted in the Kalyani Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Hospital, tested positive for Covid-19 today, taking the total number of cumulative cases in Nadia district to seven.

This time, the woman, a resident of Garifa under Naihati police station area in North-24-Parganas, has been taken to the Kalyani SNR Carnival Covid hospital after her test report found positive for Covid-19.

Confirming it, Vibhu Goel, district magistrate said the woman was admitted in the Kalyani JNM hospital with complaints of a chronic disease. Apart from this, she had symptoms similar to that of novel coronavirus and her sample was sent to NICED on 24 April.

“Today, we received her test report from NICED where she was found tested positive”, said a district health official.

Earlier, five persons including three children of a family at Srikrishnapur in Burnia under Tehatta police station area were tested positive for Covid-19. They were all sent to Beleghata ID hospital while eight other family members were sent to Rajarhat quarantine center in Kolkata on 28 March. The health department later identified 71 persons who came in contact with the afflicted persons and they were all taken in quarantine centers. Finally, these infected five persons were released from the hospital as they tested negative for Covid-19.

Within a few days, an ex-BSF jawan, a resident of Charatala in Chapra was found positive for Covid-19 and he has been sent to a Covid hospital in North-24-Parganas.

As the panic gripped in the locality soon after the news spread, the district health department has begun tracking the persons who came in contact with the afflicted person. “We are collecting data from the locality about the movements of the infected person in the locality and their interaction with the neighbourers or relatives during his stay. For precautionary measures, we will keep the person who came in contact with the infected persons either in quarantine center or in home quarantine,” said a health official.

Meanwhile, the district health department has started disinfecting the JNM hospital to curb the spread of the virus among other normal patients and health workers, a hospital source said.

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