Amid rise in cases, breather for state with only 2 in hosp
Bhubaneswar: The state government on Saturday said only two Covid-19 patients in Odisha currently need medical care usually have either recovered or are asymptomatic.
Two more persons from the same family in Madhusudan Nagar — a 35-year-old woman and a 23-year-old man — on Friday tested positive for the virus, taking the total number of positive cases in the state to 50.
Of the 50 who tested positive, two have already been discharged and 1 died on April 6. “Among the rest 47, 10 tested negative on Friday and are being discharged. Among the remaining 37 active cases, only two patients need hospital care. The other 35 don’t have any current symptoms. They have been kept in hospital for better observation properly for their isolation from others, ” said Shalini Pandit, Mission Director, National Health Mission Odisha.
Pandit said among all good cases, more than 80% were totally asymptomatic. The rest have already recovered. “We hope some more patients will be discharged from hospitals very soon, ” she said.
The NHM MD said Odisha plans raise testing of people so that positive cases if any are identified, quarantined and community spread is prevented.
As on 9 am of Saturday, 3, 547 samples have been tested. The government has ramped up facilities to increase the volume of tests to around 1, 500 every in the ongoing antigen method besides testing at least one lakh people considering the rapid kits as soon as possible.
Health department sources said two of the patients who need hospital care include a 69-year-old man from West Medinipur district of West Bengal admitted to KIMS and a 60-year-old from Suryanagar admitted to AIIMS. Condition of both of them is stable though the patient in AIIMS is in the intensive care unit.
While 33 of the 37 active cases are confined to Bhubaneswar, one each are from Bhadrak, Kendrapada, Dhenkanal and Kalahandi. The information and public relations department, in a tweet, said the two new positive cases in Bhubaneswar are close contacts of a 45-year-old man who tested positive earlier.
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