Janjivan Bureau / New Delhi : Four passengers with ‘home quarantine’ stamp deboarded from Garib Rath. Two more people tested positive for the virus in Bengaluru and one more in Noida. The number of novel coronavirus cases in the country rose to 147 on Wednesday, with 10 fresh cases reported from various parts of the country, according to the Health Ministry.
In Gurugram, authorities have ordered gatherings should not exceed 50 people. The decision was made at a meeting between the district administration and Additional Chief Secretary, Health and Family Welfare Rajiv Arora Wednesday morning.
The cases include 25 foreign nationals and the three persons who died in Delhi, Karnataka and Maharashtra.
Over 5,700 people, who had come in contact with these positive cases, are under rigorous surveillance, the Ministry said.
Delhi has so far reported 10 positive cases, which includes one foreigner while Uttar Pradesh has recorded 16 cases, including one foreigner.
Maharashtra has 41 cases, including three foreigners, while Kerala has recorded 27 cases which includes two foreign nationals.
Karnataka has 11 coronavirus patients. The number of cases in Ladakh rose to eight and Jammu and Kashmir three. Telangana has reported five cases which includes two foreigners.
Rajasthan has also reported four cases, including that of two foreigners. Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Uttarakhand and Punjab have reported one case each.
In Haryana, there are 16 cases, which include 14 foreigners.
According to the ministry’s data, 14 people have been discharged so far, including the three patients from Kerala who were discharged last month.
Three persons infected with the virus have died so far, the latest casualty being a 64-year-old man from Mumbai with a travel history to Dubai who died on Tuesday.
While a 76-year-old man from Kalaburagi who returned from Saudi Arabia died last Tuesday, a 68-year-old woman in Delhi who had tested positive for coronavirus passed away at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital on Friday night.
The government on Tuesday banned the entry of passengers from Afghanistan, the Philippines and Malaysia to India with immediate effect, according to an additional travel advisory.
This instruction is a temporary measure and will be in force till March 31 and will be reviewed subsequently.
With coronavirus cases swelling in the country, the government has also banned the entry of passengers from the European Union countries, Turkey and the UK from March 18 till March 31.
Karnataka Health Minister B. Sriramulu on Wednesday confirmed two more positive coronavirus cases in the state, raising the total to 13.
“Two more COVID-19 cases have been registered in Bengaluru on Wednesday, taking the total infected cases to 13,” tweeted Sriramulu.
He said the two new cases included a 56-year-old city-based man who returned from the US on March 6 and a 25-year-old woman who returned from Spain.
“Both are admitted in a designated isolated hospital,” Sriramulu added.
A resident of Noida who recently returned from Indonesia has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, Gautam Buddh Nagar health officials said on Wednesday.
The total number of positive cases for the COVID-19 in the district now stands at four, Chief Medical Officer Anurag Bhargava said.
“The sample of this person, who lives in Sector 41 of Noida, was taken four days ago and he has tested positive for coronavirus. He has been admitted to the Government Institute of Medical Sciences (GIMS) in Greater Noida for treatment,” Bhargava said in a statement.
He said the infected person’s house and nearby areas are being sanitised.
On Tuesday, two persons—residents of Noida’s Sector 78 and Sector 100—who recently returned from France had tested positive for coronavirus, according to officials.
Officials said one resident of Delhi had earlier tested positive for coronavirus in Noida.
Meanwhile, as authorities continued to grapple with the escalating situation, reports of isolation patients going rogue added to the chaos. Four Germany-returned passengers with ‘home quarantine’ stamp on their hands were de-boarded from the Bandra Terminus-Delhi Garibrath Express train at Palghar station, around 100 km from Mumbai, on Wednesday after co-passengers raised an alarm, the Western Railway said.
