This story is from April 26, 2020

18 of a family test +ve in Sant Kabir Nagar

18 of a family test +ve in Sant Kabir Nagar
Gorakhpur: Sant Kabir Nagar district recorded a sudden spike in coronavirus cases as 19 people tested positive on Friday night, taking the district count to 21.
As many as 18 people of a family in Maghar and one other in Tilathi village of the district were found positive.
Of all the students who returned to Sant Kabir Nagar from Deoband on March 27, a 23-year-old man of Maghar area was found positive on April 21.
On Thursday, officials sent samples of 27 people who came in contact with the man to Gorakhpur BRD Medical College for test. On late Friday night, as many as 18 people—all relatives of the infected man—tested positive for coronavirus, informed ADM Sanjay Kumar Pandey.
Another person who tested positive on Friday is a 23-year old man of Tilathi village, who returned from Mumbai to his village on April 23. Administration quarantined nine members of his family in the district hospital.
Officials sanitized and sealed Maghar and Tilathi village and Sant Kabir Naghar DM Rabish Gupta declared them as hotspots on Saturday morning.
Heavy police force has been deployed in the two areas. Earlier, a man from Chorha village in Dudhara area of the district was found positive on April 15.
Gorakhpur zone commissioner Jayant Narlirkar has directed officials to keep a vigil over the concerned areas. He also inspected the areas sharing border with Sant Kabir Nagar district.
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