On Monday, officials have declared that two major private hospitals, one in Mumbai and another hospital in Pune have been declared as "containment zones". At least 130 medical staffs including doctors, nurses and patients were found positive for COVID-19 infections.

The Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has declared the Wockhardt Hospital in Mumbai Central as a containment zone. Almost 29 staffs including three doctors and 26 nurses were found Covid-19 positive for coronavirus last week. As reported, the infections happened after two coronavirus positive patients and two suspected cases were shifted there from the Kasturba Hospital 15 days back. The two positive patients were kept in the isolation ward and the other two suspect cases were kept with other patients in the ICU, the infection might have spread from here.

In the last week, 2 nurses attending in the ICU were tested positive and the infections spread quickly, affecting the 29 other staff including the doctors.

The BMC has taken the swabs of extra 270 staffers and patients at the hospital for testing, the results are still pending. Hence, the hospital has been declared a containment zone.

As a large number of cases have arrived from a single location, the BMC has ordered an investigation to determine if coronavirus protocols were followed or not while dealing with the two patients and other two suspects who were admitted last month in the hospital.

In D. Y. Patil Hospital, Pune, at least 92 staffers including doctors and nurses are tested positive after an accident victim was treated who turned out to be a coronavirus positive.

Contrary to speculation, the accident victim is of a different religion and has no links to the Tablighi Jamaat event that happened last month in New Delhi.

The victim, an autorickshaw driver in his early 30s, had met with an accident on 31st March and was rushed to the D. Y. Patil Hospital. After his surgery, he developed fever and his samples were sent for testing and it reported positive for COVID-19.

Accordingly, he was moved to the Y.B. Chavan Memorial Hospital, and a full-scale hunt has started to find out who all came in contact with the victim. These include almots 42 doctors and 50 paramedics and staffs who are quarantined and their test results are awaited.

Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporations Commissioner Shravan Hardikar and other health authorities repeated that the victim, who is in ICU, is not linked to the Tablighi Jamaat.

Source: ET Healthworld