‘102’ call centre staff, PAC jawan among 23 new Covid patients

LUCKNOW: A woman employed at the statewide 102 ambulance call centre, a PAC jawan of the 32nd battalion and two infants were among 23 people testing positive for novel coronavirus infection on Sunday.
With this, the number of cases since Covid-19 outbreak in the city on March 11 has touched 1023.
So far, as many as 660 patients, including 25 on Sunday, have been discharged after recovery while 18 others, mainly elderly, could not survive.
Chief medical officer (CMO) Dr Narendra Agarwal said, “Most of the Covid-19 positive cases reported on Sunday either had travel history or were contacts of those already tested positive.”
The jawan of PAC 32nd battalion, who was tested positive, is a resident of Badali Kheda area. Two jawans and three of their contacts of the battalion have been diagnosed with the disease so far. In all, 98 jawans of various battalions and their contacts have been found Covid-19 positive.
The 102 call centre employee of ambulance services run by a private company, GVK-EMRI, lives in Krishnanagar. Earlier, five employees of the company’s 108 ambulance call centre had tested positive following which the building was closed for sanitization for 48 hours.
Other cases included two infants. One-year-old girl from Aashiana, daughter of an Aligarh-based epidemiologist, had tested positive upon return to Aligarh from Lucknow on June 26. Another patient was the six-month-old daughter of a couple from LDA colony, Kanpur road, who had earlier tested positive.
A postman at the general post office and a resident of Husainabad who recently returned from Delhi were also tested positive.