One more Coronavirus case detected in city

New Delhi: With the third case of Coronavirus detected in Delhi, authorities on Friday intensified efforts to augment facilities in the national capital by adding more isolation wards for COVID-19 patients and directed schools in the city to suspend morning assembly.

A health official of the Delhi government said 11 people, including seven family members of the man who tested positive for coronavirus after his visit to Thailand, have been quarantined at their residence.

The Delhi health department has also come up with a containment plan that includes preparing a buffer zone of five kilometres by the Delhi Geospatial Delhi Ltd around the cases reported so far, a bulletin said.

A surveillance of 50 households has been done in the vicinity of the residence of the fresh case to check if there has been any infection, it added.

The 25-year-old man, who also travelled to Malaysia, has tested positive for COVID-19, taking the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the national capital to three.

"The family of the patient comprising his wife, parents, brother, sister-in-law and their two kids has been home quarantined. Their samples have been taken for testing," the official said.

The office of the patient, who has been shifted to the Safdarjung Hospital for treatment, is in Gurgaon but he operated from his residence.

A Paytm employee who tested positive for coronavirus is also a resident of west Delhi.

So far, 31 people have tested positive for coronavirus in India, according to the Union Health Ministry.

Augmenting the health facilities, Southwest Delhi District Magistrate Rahul Singh issued an order, asking all government and private hospitals to create such facility for COVID-19 patients.

"As you are aware that there is an emergency situation of COVID-19 in Delhi. Therefore, all government and private hospitals need to create the facility of isolation beds for COVID-19 patients, that is 10 per cent of the total bed capacity of all government and private hospitals under SWD," the order stated.

The North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) said it was also preparing to have separate wards Kasturba, Rajan Babu, Maharishi Valmiki and Smt Giridhar Lal hospitals of the North Delhi civic body.

Earlier in the day, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal

said anganwadis have been closed in view of the Coronavirus scare.