Gujarat – Bharuch sees seven Covid-19 cases in a day, it’s first

A Gujarat district Bharuch reported seven Covid-19 cases from the remote Ikhar village in Amod taluka on Friday.

The seven of the 95 persons belonged to various Islamic Jamaats, following which health check at a massive scale is underway in Bharuch and other areas where they were residing prior to the lockdown. The four positive cases have been admitted to the Bharuch civil hospital for Covid19 treatment. Ikhar is also home to India’s former pacer Munaf Patel.

‘They drove in a van and reached Ikhar village on March 18. They had arrived in Ankleshwar on March 12 via Surat and Mumbai.

Our door to door teams had detected their presence on March 31 in local Masjid and immediately quarantined them. The problem is that they are not coming clean about their travel history and we are seeking police help. However, we took their tests on Thursday as the new guidelines say all persons belonging to other states also need to be tested. Earlier only those returning from international travel were tested. They are all asymptomatic and have tested positive in the sampling,’ District Collector MD Modhiya said.

‘There are people of different Jamaats who are in Bharuch. Of these, 11 came from Tamil Nadu and seven have tested negative. We also have 41 persons from the Nizamuddin Markaz and 13 from Bhavnagar Jamaat. Another 13 from Haryana Jamaat and 12 in Sarod in Jambusar as well as 22 people from Karnataka Jamaat. We are doing mass sampling today as well and 25 health teams are conducting survey in Ikhar, which will be completed by tonight,’ he said.

Modhiya said the Jamaat members were discovered when the district health department teams began their door to door survey in view of the Covid-19 pandemic. ‘Our door to door teams who began the health survey of villages reached Ikhar and learnt about the presence of people from other states. We immediately quarantined 11 of them in a vacant house in Ikhar. They were asymptomatic during their entire quarantine but tested positive in the mass samples collected on Thursday.’

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