Two more cases from Oppo, 7 others take Noida tally past 300

NOIDA: Five more employees of mobile manufacturing unit Oppo tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday, of whom two are from Greater Noida. This takes the company’s Covid tally to 11. In Noida, seven other cases were reported on Thursday, taking the district’s count to 302.
Apart from the two in Greater Noida — a 20-year-old man from Kasna and a 28-year-old man from Habibpur Sutyana village — the three others from the company were cross-notified, one to Mathura and two to Bihar.
Two others — 25-year-old woman and a 29-year-old man from Nagla Phase II — were related to those who had tested positive earlier. But five others — a 36-year-old man from Sector 81, a 40-year-old man from Noida Extension, a 67-year-old man from Jhundpura village in Sector 11, a 52-year-old man from Kila Colony in Jewar and a 60-year-old woman from Chaulash Dadri — did not have a known source of infection.
There were 14 more cases, all cross-notified to other districts, on Thursday. Two patients were discharged — 209 have recovered so far and 88 cases are active. District and health officials are also revising the strategy to intensify surveillance in rural containment zones and slums with dense population, like JJ Colony and Mamura.
Media house is Noida’s third biggest cluster
Covid-19 cases emerging from a news channel have been going up, with 31 employees having tested positive already, health officials said. Of them, 17 are residents of Noida and 14 others are from Ghaziabad, Faridabad and Delhi.
“At least 70 employees are symptomatic and their samples have been taken. The reports are expected by Friday. While some of these are in quarantine, others have been asked to stay in mandatory home quarantine,” said a health department official. It is now the third biggest cluster in Noida. JJ Colony, with more than 50 cases, is the biggest cluster now. Cease Fire, which has 44 cases, is the second biggest but does not have any active case now. The cases related to the news channel, meanwhile, now also include family members, including senior citizens.