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Three of Health Minister's family test positive
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 26 2020:
Three family members of Health and Family Welfare Minister L Jayantakumar have been tested positive for COVID-19 .
According to information received from Health Department, one relative of L Jayantakumar was taken to the emergency ward of Shija Hospital on July 24 after he met with an accident.
Significantly the source of infection is yet to be established and he has no travel history.
The victim was tested for COVID-19 before he underwent surgical operation.
It was known late last night the accident victim was Covid positive.
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Subsequently, 44 members of the Health Minister who reside at Pishumthong, Imphal West were tested for COVID-19 and two of them were found positive, said the source.
It is said that the Health Department has taken up all necessary containment and preventive measures.
The Health Minister's COVID-19 positive relative who was admitted in Shija Hospital was shifted to RIMS today.
The room earlier occupied by the accident victim in Shija Hospital has been disinfected, informed the source.
Moreover, the Health Department has initiated necessary arrangements to test all the doctors and nurses who were directly involved in treating the accident victim for COVID-19 .
Shija Hospital Managing Director Dr Kh Palin said that the 4th floor of his hospital where the Jayantakumar's family member was accommodated has been sealed and necessary process has been initiated to test all the patients accommodated on the same floor for COVID-19 .
Moreover, all the doctors and nurses who visited the 4th floor have been quarantined in the hospital's quarantine section, Dr Palin said.
Rapid antigen test has been started on patients admitted in the hospital's emergency ward.
He said that normal services have been going at the hospital amid stringent safety and precautionary measures.
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