Bhubaneswar adds 100 Covid-19 positive cases in 16 days
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BHUBANESWAR: In just 16 days, between June 3 and June 19, the capital city saw hundred Covid positive cases being reported, while it had reported only 65 cases in 75 days (two and half months from March 15 to May 31). With seven fresh Covid positive cases being reported on Friday, the capital city now has 165 total cases.
Out of the seven cases, four have travel history of Delhi. All of them are railway employees. The remaining three are local cases out of which two were detected in Dumduma housing board colony and one employee of a private hospital here. The city on Friday also recorded a patient getting recovered. With 83 getting recovered and three deaths, there are 78 active cases here.
Since June 15, consecutive for five days, new cases have been reported. In five days since June 15, the capital city reported 43 cases out of which 15 are local cases (not quarantined) including three Covid warriors and the rest are returnees.
As far as single day spike in city in June is concerned, 13 cases had been detected on June 5 and 17 cases on June 17.
“Since some local cases are being reported, community awareness programme has been intensified. Local cases are those one, which are not the primary contacts but they somehow got the virus coming in contact with the primary contact. Aggressive surveillance in all the wards have started with the help of Anganwadi and Asha workers and members of Mahila Arogya Samiti,” said an officer of BMC.
With another case being reported from city’s biggest slum Salia Sahi, which is a local one, the BMC commissioner Prem Chandra Chaudhury and senior officers visit slums to take stock. The city slums were untouched by the virus but the first case in Salia Sahi had been reported on June 6.
BMC officials said they have brought all 536 slums under surveillance all over again. It is part of the exercise to identify people, who have returned recently. “On case to case basis, decision for quarantine of a single household in a locality or some 10 to 12 household together will be taken. But the most important task is to aggressively carry out tracking of health and travel history as many have returned by trains and the registration process at source (railway station) has been done away with. We are only registering the people coming to city by air,” said a BMC officer.
The BMC had stopped the household health mapping and tracking of travel history in the slums in the middle of May as no case had been found there.