C'garh: Two migrants test COVID-19 positive; active cases four

Raipur, Apr 30 () Two migrant labourers fromJharkhand tested coronavirus positive in Chhattisgarh onThursday, taking the number of such patients in the state to40, of whom 36 have been discharged so far, health officialssaid.

Talking to , public relations officer of AIIMS-Raipur, said that total nine people, including some migrantlabourers from Surajpur district of Chhattisgarh, had testedpositive in the rapid-testing method and were kept in theisolation ward at the hospital, where their RT-PCR tests wereconducted.

"Two of them, a 26-year-old and another aged 25 years,tested positive this afternoon. With this, total four activecases are currently being treated in the COVID-19 ward ofAIIMS," he said.

Their condition is stable and they are gettingtreatment as per the guidelines of the Indian Council ofMedical Research (ICMR).

On April 28, a 58-year-old migrant labourer fromneighbouring Jharkhand state, who was admitted to a quarantinecentre in Jajawal village of Surajpur, had tested positive forthe infection, he said.

"Later, reports of nine other people, includingmigrant labourers and government staff, at the facility cameout positive in the rapid testing process. However, all ninewere shifted to AIIMS Raipur and their swab samples were takenfor RT-PCR test for final confirmation," he said.

"Two of them were found infected. However, six othersuspected patients have been shifted to a quarantine facilityat Mana here, while the sample of one more person will be re-tested to ascertain COVID-19 status," he added.

All three migrant labourers who tested positive,worked in Maharashtra and had travelled to the border districtof Rajnandgaon along with other labourers during the lockdownearly this month in a bid to return to Jharkhand, anotherofficial said.

They were placed in a camp on the inter-state border,but in view of crowding at the facility, workers, most of themhailing from Jharkahand and Bihar, were shifted to thequarantine centre in Surajpur on April 17, he said.

The fourth coronavirus positive patient currentlyundergoing treatment is a nursing officer of AIIMS, Raipur,the officer added.

With the latest cases, the state has so far recorded40 cases of coronavirus.

Of them, 36 have been discharged from hospitalsfollowing their recovery, he said.

Chhattisgarh's COVID-19 figures are as follows:Positive cases 40, new cases two, deaths zero, discharged 36,active cases four, people tested 16,546. TKPNP NP