Amaravati: Officials on alert after two Covid-19 deaths in neighbourhood of first case

Asked if the administration had not quarantined people from the first victim’s neighborhood, Naval said, “We have been doing a lot of contact tracing and have declared this area and the adjoining Haiderpura locality as containment zones. Together they have a population of over 60,000. So we can’t quarantine everyone.”

Meanwhile, four new coronavirus positive cases with links to the first death have surfaced in the city, taking the overall tally in the district to 14.

With the two new deaths, Vidarbha’s death tally has reached five, with a death each at Nagpur and Buldana. One patient hailing from Assam had committed suicide at Akola a few days ago.

Meanwhile, Nagpur’s Covid-19 tally crossed the 100-mark on Friday with six new positive cases coming to the fore. All the new cases are from the chain that began with the death of a 68-year old man from city’s Satrangipura locality on April 5. The total number of positive cases in the chain has now reached 58.