1st group of contacts return negative
Source: The Sangai Express
CCpur, July 25 2020:
Test results of one hundred and forty-three close contacts, the first group of over 800 people who have reported or registered having visited Advanced Diagnostics - where one of its staff was tested COVID-19 positive, returned negative today.
The results, though encouraging, is far from stirring clear off the desired chances of local transmission as people who have reported to the local authorities of visiting the private lab are still mounting.
Another batches of 163 samples are collected from the close contacts today at two locations.
Meanwhile, an individual who was kept at Saikot ITI QC, a returnee from J&K has tested positive today taking the district's COVID-19 tally to 180 .
The active cases, however, slumped to 28 taking the recovery percentage to 84.Eleven of the recovered patients are discharged today.