This story is from May 5, 2020

10 Dahod cases have links to MP

10 Dahod cases have links to MP
Vadodara: With seven members of the same family testing positive, alarm bells pealed for Dahod district administration which is on a war path to quarantine the family and also collect samples of other family members for Covid-19 tests. The family had gone to Madhya Pradesh (MP) in March and managed to return last month, said officials adding that test results of remaining seven members are awaited.
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While two brothers residing in the Kasba area of Dahod tested positive on Saturday and Sunday, five more members tested positive on Monday. These include the wives of the two brothers and three of their children.
Sources said that the family had visited Neemuch in MP and somehow managed to reach Jhabua bordering Gujarat. In all, 14 members of the family managed to reach home entering Gujarat through Dahod.
Dahod collector Vijay Kharadi said that the family had returned home after a stay of around 40 days in MP citing medical emergency. He added that the heath department had come to know about their arrival. Kharadi, however, added that the details of how the family managed to travel despite lockdown were being ascertained.
Earlier, a girl who had accompanied her family from Indore for the burial of a family member who had died in Dahod, tested positive. A health worker who had come in contact with the girl also tested positive later. The girl’s uncle who was kept in quarantine too tested positive when samples were taken to ascertain if he could be discharged.
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