Fourteen more people, including nine from a media house, tested positive for coronavirus in Uttar Pradesh’s Gautam Buddh Nagar on Monday, taking the total number of infected in the district to 359, officials said.
The entire building of the media house in sector 16A has been sealed by the district authorities for sanitisation, they said.
“On Monday, 14 people have been found positive for Covid-19 and total positive cases till date stands at 359. Five patients were discharged on Monday and a total of 235 patients have recovered so far. There are 119 active cases now,” District Surveillance Officer Sunil Dohare said in a statement.
Among the new patients, 10 are employees of Zee Media, nine of whom are locals and one is from Delhi, a senior official told PTI.
“A total of 10 employees of a private company located at Sector 16a in Noida tested positive. All patients were in institutional quarantine. Nine patients belong to Gautam Buddh Nagar and one patient was cross notified to Delhi,” according to the statement.
A 39-year-old employee of Zee Media from Delhi had tested positive for Covid-19 on May 15. The media house had then initiated mass testing, while the district health department launched a contact-tracing exercise.
On May 18, 28 of the company’s employees were found positive for Covid-19, of which 15 were locals and the remaining from Delhi, Faridabad and Gurgaon.
Meanwhile, the district administration said it has sealed the entire building of Zee Media in sector 16A in the wake of the new cases.
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