The first doctor had contracted the coronavirus infection on March 21 from a 38-year-old woman from Dilshad Garden, who had visited him.
New Delhi| Another doctor from a mohalla clinic in Delhi has tested positive for coronavirus. A notice outside a community clinic in Delhi’s Babarpur asked patients who visited the clinic between March 12 and 20 to quarantine themselves at their homes for the next two weeks.
According to news agency ANI, a notice has been put up in the area asking patients who had visited the clinic between March 12 to March 20 to self-quarantine themselves at home for the next 15 days.
This is the second such incident at a Delhi mohalla clinic in one week. The clinic in Mohanpuri area of Maujpur was closed and sanitised. The doctor’s wife and daughter were also tested positive for coronavirus. Soon after the doctor was tested positive, a similar notice was put outside the Maujpur clinic asking people who came in contact with the doctor to quarantine themselves.
The first doctor had contracted the coronavirus infection on March 21 from a 38-year-old woman from Dilshad Garden, who had visited the doctor’s private clinic on March 12, with symptoms such as cough and fever.
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The wife and daughter of this 49-year-old doctor, who worked at a Mohalla Clinic in north-east Delhi’s Maujpur, had also tested positive for the coronavirus disease.
Delhi has recorded nearly 50 cases in the last two days as the COVID-19 count crossed the 100-mark; two deaths have been reported from the city so far.
The chain of infection at Maujpur started with a woman who returned from Saudi Arabia on March 10, and visited the clinic with symptoms of COVID-19. The doctor was exposed to the virus when the 38-year-old woman visited the clinic on March 12, according to Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain. Five days later, she tested positive. That day, the doctor was also admitted to the hospital.
Five more persons had tested positive for the virus from direct contact with the woman – her mother, brother and two daughters, and a relative who picked her up from the Delhi airport on her arrival. Some 74 persons in her neighbourhood are also under watch.
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