This story is from April 14, 2020

One more from Yavatmal tests positive, Vidarbha total is 96

A 40-year-old man from Yavatmal, who was among the close high risk contacts of one of the eight confirmed positive Covid-19 cases in city, tested positive on Monday. This takes the total number of Covid-19 positive cases in Yavatmal to 12. Out of these, three patients have recovered and been discharged.
One more from Yavatmal tests positive, Vidarbha total is 96
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NAGPUR: A 40-year-old man from Yavatmal, who was among the close high risk contacts of one of the eight confirmed positive Covid-19 cases in city, tested positive on Monday. This takes the total number of Covid-19 positive cases in Yavatmal to 12. Out of these, three patients have recovered and been discharged.
Currently, nine patients are admitted in the isolation ward of GMCH Yavatmal.
Seven of them are from other states (UP, West Bengal and Delhi) while two are from Yavatmal, who came into their contact. A massive active surveillance and sealing of the areas where these positive patients used to reside is under way in Yavatmal from last three days. More than 150 swab samples were collected and sent for testing. Out of them, 104 had tested negative till Monday, while one tested positive.
On Monday, there were 154 persons in isolation wards of GMCH Yavatmal and 64 are in institutional quarantine, of whom 23 are in the Dhamangaon Road-based Government Girls Hostel and 41 are kept in the Boys Hostel of GMCH Yavatmal.
Lab In Chandrapur?
Minister for relief and rehabilitation, and disaster management and guardian minister of Chandrapur, Vijay Wadettiwar announced establishment of a separate lab for testing Covid-19 samples in Chandrapur. He claimed the lab for coronavirus will be established at Chandrapur Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) here at a cost of Rs2.18 crore. He claimed that this sum would be fetched from social responsibility funds of mining department of Chandrapur district. The work on the new lab will begin from Tuesday, he said. Currently, all samples of suspected coronavirus patients in Chandrapur are being sent to Nagpur for testing. Health administration has identified 47 people as suspected patients in Chandrapur district. Samples of 39 patients have been sent for testing and they have received 28 reports, all of which were negative. Remaining 11 reports are still awaited.

Lab in Amravati too
Guardian minister of Amravati Yashomati Thakur claimed that a Covid-19 laboratory will be established in Amravati. Thakur tweeted this late on Monday evening, saying she has already spoken to health minister Rajesh Tope and chief minister Uddhav Thackeray in this regard. The lab will start either at the microbiology department of Amravati University or in the Punjabrao Deshmukh Medical College. Total 113 samples from Amravati are yet to be tested and results are pending. Till date, 409 swab samples have been sent from Amravati, 271 of them tested negative, 5 tested positive while 10 were invalid.
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