DEHRADUN: The Uttarakhand health department has swung into action after the sample of a Lucknow student who visited his grandparents in Udham Singh Nagar returned positive for the highly transmissible Delta Plus variant of Covid-19.
After the infection surfaced, samples of more than two dozen people were collected from the Kaalinagar area of Udham Singh Nagar. As a precautionary measure, containment and micro-containment zones have been created in the district based on the movement of the infected person.
The infection surfaced after some samples were sent to the central laboratory in Delhi for genome sequencing.
The health authorities have confirmed that the infected person, a BTech student, had come to Dineshpur (Udham Singh Nagar) to meet his relatives from Lucknow on April 29. Later, on May 20, he complained of fever and on May 24, his Covid-19 test report returned positive.
Subsequently, he was kept in home isolation. On June 9, he went back to Lucknow. At present, the infected student is staying with his parents in the residential premises of Lucknow's Balrampur Hospital, where his mother is a nurse.
Dr Avinash Khanna, additional chief medical officer of Udham Singh Nagar, said, “The infected person went to a couple of areas in the district to meet his relatives. Thus, we have converted those areas into containment zones. The locality of his grandparent's house, where he stayed during the visit, has been turned into a micro containment zone.”
Meanwhile, Uttarakhand recorded 77 fresh Covid-19 infections on Wednesday. However, the state didn’t record any fatality on the day, for the first time in nearly a month.
