Bareilly:Ninety inmates of a government women shelter home in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur district have tested positive for Covid-19 in the past two days.
Deputy Director of Women Welfare Department, Nita Ahirwar said, "In the past two days, 90 inmates of Nari Niketan here have tested positive for Covid-19. All of them have been isolated. How the inmates got infected with the coronavirus is being investigated."
According to officials, all the inmates are asymptomatic and they have been quarantined at the two-storied home. Earlier, a support staff member had tested positive for the virus.
Neeta Ahirwar said that there are around 200 inmates in the shelter home and all of them were tested for corona. Of these, 90 have been found positive, she said.
A team of doctors is regularly visiting the place and providing medicine.
Additional Chief Medical Officer doctor Ashok Kumar said, "We have sanitised the shelter home. As of now, we have not shifted any inmate to the hospital because all of them are asymptomatic. Emergency services are also available."
This came almost two months after fifty-seven girls at a state-run children's shelter home in Swarup Nagar in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur district had tested positive for COVID-19 on June 21, following which they were admitted to hospital, while 114 others were shifted elsewhere for quarantine.
Meanwhile, the number of coronavirus cases in UP soared to 1,45,287 and death toll reached 2,335. Additional Chief Secretary (Medical and Health) Amit Mohan Prasad said there are 50,426 active patients in the state, of which 23,861 are under home isolation. So far, 92,526 people have been discharged after recovering from the disease
With inputs from IANS
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