The number of Covid-19 cases in Himachal Pradesh climbed to 32 as four people, including two paramedics from Baddi town in Solan district, tested positive for coronavirus late on Friday and Saturday.
Additional chief secretary, health, RD Dhiman said that 127 samples were tested at three facilities in the state of which 125 came out negative and two positive.
On Saturday, 64 samples were tested of which 57 came out negative and two positive while results of five are awaited.
“Among the fresh cases two are paramedical staff of a private hospital in Baddi. They were primary contacts of a Delhi-based industrialist’s 70-year-old wife who died of Covid-19 at Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, on April 3,” he said.
Apart from this, a 24-year-old man from Kuthera Kherla village of Amb sub-division of Una has also tested positive.Another primary contact of the Jamaat workers from Nakdoh village also tested positive.
Being a son of the cleric at a local mosque, he was primary contact of Tablighi Jamaat workers, who tested positive for COVID 19 on March 2 and now have been cured.
{{/usCountry}}Being a son of the cleric at a local mosque, he was primary contact of Tablighi Jamaat workers, who tested positive for COVID 19 on March 2 and now have been cured.
{{/usCountry}}With this, the number of active Covid-19 cases is 21 in the state.
4 JAMAAT ACTIVISTS AMONG SIX PEOPLE CURED
Six people, including three Jamaat workers from Una district, have been cured and four patients have been shifted out of the state for treatment.
A US-returned Tibetan died in Kangra on March 3.
The second follow-up samples of three more Jamaat workers, whose first follow-up sample came out negative, will be tested on Saturday.
Himachal Pradesh had reported its first two Covid-19 cases on March 20 and the third on March 23.
The number rose sharply after April 1, as 27 people tested positive within 10 days, most of them who attended the Tablighi Jamaat event in Delhi last month.
CM asks Centre to provide PPE, rapid diagnostic kits
The state government has urged the Centre to provide adequate number of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and rapid diagnostic kits to effectively fight Covid-19 in the state.
In a video conference with Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Friday, chief minister Jai Ram Thakur also asked for providing 60 ventilators to HP. The Union minister ensured that the Centre would provide all possible help to the state government.
Thakur informed the minister that the state government has notified six hospitals—Lal Bahadur Shastri Government Medical College Nerchowk Mandi, ESIC Hospital Katha Baddi, Charitable Hospital Bhota in Hamirpur, SS Memorial Ashirwaa Hospital in Chamba, Civil Hospital Sarahan in Sirmaur, and Agarwal Hospital Jwalamukhi in Kangra— as Covid-19 hospitals in the state.