97 samples negative out of 108 collected in Vadodara

As per preventive measures samples are collected of people
suspicious to be having symptoms of Coronavirus and checked inside the SSG
hospital as per government protocol. District Collector is closely monitoring
the samples testing and issues important guidelines in view of such challenging
situation.

The testing lab is started in the SSG hospital to check the
samples collected for Corona suspicious patients.

Chief District Medical Officer Dr. Uday Tilawat briefed that
till date 108 samples were collected and out of them 97 comes as negative after
testing. The nine positive are under treatment and the first patient was
discharged from the hospital after 14 days on Tuesday. 79 samples from SSG, 18
from GMERS and 11 samples from private hospitals are collected for testing and
out of them eight from SSGH and one from GMERS comes out as positive. Two
samples were rejected earlier.

Dr. Tilawat further said that 752 different teams started
survey of the households completed 97% of the work as Corona preventive step.
During the check 699 cases of fever, 1557 cases of cough were came to light and
necessary treatment and guidelines are given to them.