Delhi Government hospital shuts after doctors test positive for coronavirus
New Delhi : A Delhi government-run hospital has been closed after one of its doctors was tested positive for coronavirus. The doctor worked at the Delhi State Cancer Institute.
The complete hospital building, including OPD, offices and labs have been sealed and are being sanitized, say officials. The people who came in contact with the doctor have been asked to go into quarantine.
It has been learned that the doctor may have received COVID-19 infection from relatives who had returned from UK.
"It is suspected that the doctor caught the infection from her brother and sister-in-law who had just returned from the UK. She had visited their house recently," said Delhi Health Minister Satyender Jain.
Till Wednesday morning, Delhi had 120 coronavirus cases, including two deaths. Twenty-four cases reported on Tuesday were from the Markaz Nizamuddin, the Delhi headquarters of the Tabligh Jamaat, where a religious gathering was held in March in defiance of coronavirus warnings.
Earlier, a doctor couple who worked in Delhi government-run Mohalla clinics were tested positive for coronavirus. They were believed of getting the infection by a patient who had returned from Saudi Arabia.
Across India, the number of coronavirus cases has climbed to 1,397 after 146 new cases were reported in the past 24 hours. According to the health ministry, 35 people have died.
