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Covid 19 latest update: 14 of Uttarakhand’s 82, 834 returnees have turned positive so far
Uttarakhand government fears that those returning from other states may bring coronavirus with them to the state.
Fourteen people who have returned to Uttarakhand from other states have turned Covid-19 positive, including one 29-year-old man who came from Delhi with his mother and tested positive on Friday in Dehradun.
According to the government officials, till Friday evening, over 2.12 lakh people had registered on the state website to return to Uttarakhand. Of these, the state government has so far brought back 82, 834 people through trains and buses, while over 6,000 people have returned to the state in their own vehicles.
33,990 people have registered with the government to return to their respective states from Uttarakhand. Of these, 16,229 have been sent to their respective states.
On Friday one person tested positive in Dehradun, taking the total to 79 cases in Uttarakhand. 50 of these have recovered, leaving 28 active cases.
Friday’s patient was Dehradun’s 40th in total and the 11th active case. The doubling rate in the past seven days in the district has come down to 29.86 from 167.38 days on Tuesday.
JC Pandey, public relations officer (PRO), state health department, said, the 29-year-old man from Dehradun was tested at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Rishikesh. “This man had come with his mother from Delhi. His mother had tested Covid-19 positive on May 13,” he said.
After Dehradun’s 40, US Nagar has reported the most infections at 16, followed by 12 in Nainital, 7 in Haridwar, 2 in Almora and one each in Uttar Kashi and Pauri Garhwal.
The state has nine containment zones including five in Dehradun, two in Haridwar and one each in Nainital and US Nagar.
On Thursday, six people including a ten-year-old girl with travel history from New Delhi tested positive for Covid-19. Three cases were detected in Udham Singh Nagar, while other three were from Dehradun district, including a 36-year-old woman, who became the first positive case to be reported in the hill station of Mussoorie.
Authorities in Uttarakhand are worried about the possibility of some among the huge mass returning to the state carrying the infection with them. Last week, chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat had acknowledged it as a big challenge. “The state is expecting at least 2-2.25 lakh migrants to return, of which about 25,000 are expected to be infected,” the chief minister had said during a Facebook live session.
On May 13, Uttarakhand High Court had expressed concern over many returning migrants testing positive for Covid-19 and sought to know from the state and the Central government if it was possible to medically examine each person before they were allowed to return to the state since merely thermal screening was ‘not enough’.
