Pregnant woman tests positive for COVID-19 in Belagavi
A 25-year-old pregnant woman from a village near Belagavi has tested positive for the virus. She had travelled from Maharashtra recently, I.P. Gadad, district health and family welfare officer, said.
The patient has been identified as primigravida (first time pregnant) and she is under constant observation by doctors and paramedics. The patient is stable and undergoing treatment. She had consulted doctors at the KLE Charitable Hospital in Yallur and was later shifted to the KLE Dr. Prabhakar Kore Hospital in Belagavi. She is being treated as an in-patient, according to reports.
'As many as eight suspected cases were tested for COVID-19, but all have turned negative. COVID-19 wards are being set up in the district hospital and taluk hospitals. We are issuing a general warning, but there is no need to panic. Children, senior citizens and those with conditions like diabetes and hypertension need to be careful,' he said.
'A team of officials has been camping in Yallur, the native village of the patient. Mass testing of Influenza Like Illness (ILI) and Severe Acute Respiratory Illness (SARI) are being conducted. Members of all the 266 houses in the village have been tested and no one has tested positive. Even the primary and secondary contacts of the patient — family members and persons who came in contact with the patient — have not tested positive,' Dr. Gadad said.
All suspected cases are being tested. An information and education campaign is being carried out across the district. The Departments of Health and Medical Education are working in coordination, the officer added.
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