Fifty-one of 141 Uttarakhand village residents test positive for COVID-19
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Fifty-one out of the 141 people living in a village in Uttarakhand's Pauri district have tested positive for COVID-19, officials said on Saturday.
"The village has been declared a containment zone and villagers have been put in home isolation. The reports were received on Friday," Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Satpauli, Sandip Kumar said.
"They have been put in home isolation and given medicine kits," he added.
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Village has been declared a containment zone
"Residents of Kurkhyal village in Pauri's Ekeshwar block had been showing symptoms of COVID-19 like fever for some time. A Health Department team from the primary health center at Pathisain took samples of villagers for testing on May 11," Kumar said.
"The village has been declared a containment zone. As a precautionary measure the nearby market at Pathisain has also been closed," he added.
Rural areas
Anganwadi volunteers asked to remain in contact with patients
"Six residents of a village adjoining Kurkhyal have also tested positive for COVID-19. Anganwadi volunteers have been asked to remain in touch with the infected people in villages so that they can be shifted to the COVID-19 care center in Satpuli in case their condition deteriorates," Kumar said.
Recently, there has been a surge in the COVID-19 cases in rural areas across the country.
COVID-19 cases
Active cases in Uttarakhand stand at 79,379
On Friday, the state recorded 5,775 new COVID-19 cases thus pushing the state tally to 2,77,585 cases.
The state has recorded 181 new COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours, thus taking the death toll to 4,426 COVID-19 deaths.
The state has so far witnessed 1,93,780 COVID-19 recoveries, with active cases in the state standing at 79,379.
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