by: Navjeevan Express

Good Samaritan tests positive for Coronavirus in Ahmedabad

NE NEWS SERVICE

AHMEDABAD, APRIL 6

A Good Samaritan, 55-year-old businessman, from Ahmedabad who was helping the lockdown-affected, has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, health officials said on Monday.

However, since the Maninagar resident was not involved in personally distributing food packets, there was no possibility of anyone else getting infected due to him, Tejas Shah, Deputy Health Officer (South Zone), Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation said.

“The financier, who tested positive on Sunday, was supplying free meals to people affected by the lockdown. He had outsourced work of preparing the meals to a professional cook. He had hired men to distribute the food as well,” he said.

The source of infection is unknown since the man was at home for long and has no travel history, officials said.

“After he tested positive, 13 persons, including family members, have been quarantined,” Shah said.

Infant of labourer couple with no travel history on ventilator after contracting coronavirus

A 14-month-old boy with no travel history has tested positive for coronavirus in Jamnagar district, sending the health officials into overdrive to find out where the child contracted the deadly disease.

The child, whose test came out positive on Sunday, is on ventilator support and the locality where his labourer parents reside in Dared village has been put under complete lockdown to check the spread of the virus, officials said.

This is also the first case of coronavirus infection in Jamnagar district.

The health administration now has undertaken the task to trace the source of infection to the child.

Since the child’s parents are casual labourers with no recent travel history, health officials are yet to find out the exact source of infection, Jamnagar Collector Ravi Shankar said.

“The child is the son of a labourer couple hailing from Uttar Pradesh. They live in Dared industrial area on the outskirts of Jamnagar city and work in factories as casual labourers. They have not gone out of the area since long. Yet, their 14-month-old son got the coronavirus infection,” the collector said.

He was brought to a government hospital on Saturday by his parents after his health condition started deteriorating.

He tested positive for coronavirus on Sunday, Shankar said.

“The boy is undergoing treatment. His parents are asymptomatic, but as a precautionary measure, we have quarantined them,” he said.

The child is currently on ventilator support, state principal secretary (health) Jayanti Ravi said.

The labourers’ colony in Dared village has been put under total lockdown to contain the spread of the virus, the collector added.