Only one active positive
case remains in Isles
Port Blair, Apr
11: The day & night hard work of Health Care Workers of GB Pant Hospital
yielded desired results on 09.04.2020 when the designated laboratory for
COVID-19 in A&N Islands, RMRC–ICMR, Dollygunj tested all confirmed earlier
cases of COVID-19 as Negative. The first repeat tests of these 10 positive
cases were conducted on 07.04.2020, the reports of which were declared as
negative. Thereafter, the second repeat tests were conducted after 48 hrs on
09.04.2020, which also were reported as negative. As per the guidelines of WHO,
these cases can be discharged now from the hospital as ‘cured cases’. The
A&N Administration however has decided to keep all these 10 cases under
observation for next 14 days in quarantine facilities being run by
Administration to root out any possibility of further spread of COVID-19 in
case of resurgence of infection in treated patients.
It is pertinent to mention that the
Administration has detected 9 confirmed cases from Port Blair Airport on
24.03.2020 out of which 7 were detected from Vistara flight and 2 were from
Indigo flight. One person got infected by one of the COVID-19 confirmed
passenger of Indigo Flight during his home quarantine period. After discharging
these 10 patients, the Administration now has only one active positive case
which was detected while discharging the passengers from Government quarantine
facilities on 07.04.2020.
To further strengthen the measures to
effectively prevent the spread of virus from the areas where confirmed cases
were detected, it was decided to notify 3 localities of Port Blair Municipal
Area as ‘Hot Spots’ i.e. Atlanta Point, Mohanpura Masjid and Biggiline area. A
‘Hot Spot’ is an area where COVID-19 positive cases were detected and are prone
to spreading infection through contacts. To prevent infection, the area of 3 KM
from the epicenter is locked down to prevent the virus from spreading in other
areas. These areas will remain in complete lockdown position and movement of
people and essential supplies will be strictly regulated as per the norms of
‘Social Distancing’. The Administration has also decided to strictly regulate
the movement of people within the Districts/Islands so that the infection of
COVID-19 can be contained locally and prevented from spreading in other two
Districts namely N&M Andaman District and Nicobar District including Hut
Bay, Swaraj and Shaheed Dweep of South Andaman District. The Administration
will allow movement of persons to these territories from South Andaman District
for emergency services and that is also after having a negative tested
certificate of COVID-19.
Further, the Ministry of
Health and Family Welfare has also launched an App ‘AarogyaSetu’, a mobile
application developed by the Government of India to connect essential health
services with the people of India in our combined fight against COVID-19. The
App is aimed at augmenting the initiative of the Government of India,
particularly the Department of Health, in proactively reaching out to and
informing the users of the App regarding risks, best practices and relevant
advisories pertaining to the containment of COVID-19. All citizens of Islands
have been requested to download the app to contribute in our fighting against
the COVID-19.
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