With more CCCs, burden on DCHs reduces
   Date :31-Jul-2020

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Principal Correspondent :
 

Nagpur registered 182 more COVID-19 positive cases; 225 more persons recovered
 
 
With almost eight quarantine centres being converted into Covid Care Centres (CCCs), burden on the Covid hospitals being run at Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Indira Gandhi Government Medical College and Hospital (IGGMCH), All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has reduced. Meanwhile, on Thursday, Nagpur registered 182 more novel coronavirus positive cases taking the cumulative number of such cases to 4,426 while the number of cases of recovered persons reached 2,900 as 225 more persons returned home after they became corona-free.
 
On second concurrent day, the recovery rate in the city registered was above 64%. Also, about 98 more persons tested positive for coronavirus from Nagpur rural area with two deaths due to the virus. Nagpur district witnessed total 11 deaths, of which 5 were the residents of Nagpur urban, four from outside the area. With this, the total death count of Nagpur urban mounted to 78. Earlier, Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) used to put all the close contacts of coronavirus positive persons under quarantine despite they being asymptomatic.
 
All the positive asymptomatic persons were admitted to hospitals. This led to mounting of load on Covid hospitals. The frontline health workers found it difficult to manage the high number of patients. Finally, Divisional Commissioner Dr Sanjeev Kumar converted MLA Hostel, a quarantine centre, into CCC where positive asymptomatic persons were shifted. Municipal Commissioner Tukaram Mundhe has issued a circular according to which positive asymptomatic persons were to be admitted at CCC while the asymptomatic close contacts were to get home quarantined.
 
Following the policy, the civic body converted 8 quarantine centres into CCCs. Various laboratories registered different numbers of positive cases among the total samples they examined. Of the total samples examined at various hospitals, maximum 96 samples were examined at virology laboratory of Indira Gandhi Government Medical College and Hospital (IGGMCH). 64 came positive at Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) laboratory.
 
63 samples that came positive were examined at the molecular diagnostic laboratory of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). 62 samples tested positive at private laboratories while 37 came positive at the laboratory of National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI). 8 samples that tested positive were examined at the laboratory of Centre for Zonosis, Nagpur Veterinary College affiliated to Maharashtra Animal Fisheries Sciences University (MAFSU).