104 Covid-19 patients detected in separate testing drives in city

Aurangabad, April 6:

The health teams of Aurangabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) today has detected 104 persons as Covid-19 positives during the special testing drives conducted at separate places in the city.

91 Covid-19 patients detected at six PoEs

The AMC has tested visitors entering the city limits through six points of the entrance (PoE) today. The health teams tested 402 persons and found 19 infected patients at Chikalthana PoE; tested 253 and detected 25 at Harsul T Point PoE, tested 174 and found 35 Covid-19 positives at Kanchanwadi PoE, tested 547 and detected six at Octroi Naka PoE, tested 204 and detected three at Daulatabad T-Point PoE, and three were detected by testing 242 at Jhalta Phata PoE.

Six Coronavirus infected traced at government offices

The testing of visitors was also held at three out of five government offices. The team has detected two Covid-19 positives by conducting antigen tests of 37 visitors at the police commissionerate office and four by testing 38 visitors at the High Court. The test of five visitors at the AMC office was done, but no infected person was detected.

Seven passengers detected as Covid-19 patients

Four train and three air passengers, who had arrived in the city on Monday, have been reported as Covid-19 positive today. As reported earlier, the Aurangabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) health teams had conducted RT-PCR tests on 110 passengers arriving at the railway station by trains and 29 passengers arriving at Chikalthana airport by planes on April 5. The AMC received the RT-PCR reports of these passengers today. Meanwhile, the AMC health teams have conducted RT-PCR tests of 99 train passengers arriving in the city and 29 tests on air passengers at the airport today (April 6). The administration will receive their reports by tomorrow.