NEW DELHI: The Coronavirus case number 10 in Delhi set off an example of chain of infections. The patient is a woman, a resident of Dislhad Garden area who has a travel history to Saudi Arabia.
According to the government sources, 5 of Delhi’s total 30 Coronavirus cases are linked to her. This includes the woman’s two daughters, her brother, mother and a doctor.
Read here how she set off the chain of infections in Delhi infecting 5 people.
February 10: The woman travels to Saudi Arabia with her 19-year-old son.
March 10: Mother-son return to Delhi. Her brother receives them airport.
March 12: She starts suffering from cough and fever, visits a local doctor.
March 15: She is taken to GTB hospital in a cab where doctors refer her to RML hospital.
March 17: The woman tests positive for Covid-19.
March 20: Her brother and mother test positive.
March 21: Her two daughters, aged 24 and 26, test positive.
March 22: Local doctor who first saw her on March 12 tests positive.
According to health officials that 74 people living in the neighbourhood of the Dubai-returned woman are under surveillance. “When the woman tested positive for Covid-19, we rushed to her residence to ask her family for names and addresses of people who had visited them since March 10, the date of her return from Dubai,” an official said. “They weren’t very cooperative, so we had to seek the help of the local police to get information. We also used footage from the CCTV cameras installed near their home to identify some people who needed to be put under surveillance.”
One of the most vulnerable areas is the mohalla clinic where the doctor who came in the contact with the woman consulted patients.
