Four localities of old Lucknow city have been sealed after seven Tablighi Jamaat members staying in these areas for last two weeks, tested positive for coronavirus.
Varanasi/Lucknow, April 6, 2020 (IANS) A 55-year-old resident of Varanasi died on April 3 at the Sir Sundar Lal hospital in BHU of lung infection. His report on Sunday night revealed that he was Coronavirus positive.
District magistrate of Varansi, Kaushal Raj Sharma said, “Curfew has been clamped in Madanpura under the limits of Dashashwamedh police station, Bajardiha under Bhelupur, Gangapur and Lohta, both under Mirza Murad police station area. This has been done for proper screening of people of these localities, sanitization and other necessary exercises.”
Corona positive patients have been found in these localities. All 10 members in the deceased’s family have been quarantined and their samples have been sent for testing. The deceased was a resident of Gangapur locality.
Principal secretary health and family welfare Amit Mohan Prasad said, “This is now the third coronavirus related death in the state.”
He further said, “The person was unwell since March 22 and took his symptoms lightly. He went to several private doctors before reaching the BHU hospital. The Corona infection turned fatal because of the presence of co-morbid conditions including hypertension and diabetes.”
Meanwhile, four localities of old Lucknow city have been sealed after seven Tablighi Jamaat members staying in these areas for the last two weeks, tested positive for coronavirus.
Additional deputy commissioner of police (ADCP), Vikas Chandra Tripathi said that the sealed localities in Lucknow include Peer Baksh Masjid in Talkatora area, Rahmaniya Masjid in Qaiserbagh’s Phool Bagh, Mohammadi Masjid in Wazirganj’s Astbal Charbagh and a house in Saadatganj’s Yaseenganj,
He said three of these seven Jamaatis had come from Assam, and two each from UP’s Saharanpur district and Jaipur (Rajasthan) to attend religious gatherings at mosques in Lucknow. He said their travel history was being tracked.
The Kasaibada locality in Sadar was sealed earlier on Friday after it emerged as a Covid19 hotspot with 12 Tablighi Jamaat members, who had been staying in a mosque there, testing positive.
Tripathi said the four new localities were sealed to ensure proper sanitization and medical examination of people living there. He said the police personnel were assisting medical teams to collect samples of suspected patients.
In Lakhimpur district, three more men tested positive for Coronavirus, taking the number of infected people in the district to four. Following the development, an alert has been sounded in the district.
