Covid-19: Three of Dubai family test positive in Gujarat's Dahod, 8 quarantined

VADODARA: Eight persons including three people who tested positive for Covid-19 have been put under home quarantine in Dahod.
The three Covid patients including a couple and their child had come from Dubai and reached Dahod after a stopover of four to five days in Mumbai.
The family had got themselves tested again as they were returning to Dubai again.Dahod chief district health officer Dr C R Patel said that the test was found positive even as the family members were asymptomatic.
The family had tested negative in the test conducted upon arrival in Mumbai.
Five relatives of the family from Rajasthan were staying with them when the test conducted in Dahod was found positive. These five persons were also quarantined by the administration.
Patel said that the samples of the three persons who tested positive were sent for genome sequencing. This has been done as a precautionary measure.
For past several days now, Dahod district had not registered a single case of Covid.
The district has so far registered 7,143 Covid-19 cases, of which seven succumbed to Covid infection, while 332 died due to co-morbidities.