Aurangabad, May 12:
The health teams of Aurangabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) today have detected 29 persons as Covid-19 positives during the special testing drives conducted at separate places in the city.
16 Covid-19 patients detected at six PoEs
The AMC has tested visitors entering the city limits through six points of the entrance (PoE) on Wednesday. The health teams tested 178 persons and found one infected patient at Chikalthana PoE; tested 161 and detected nine at Harsul T Point PoE, tested 282 and found two at Kanchanwadi PoE, tested 225 and detected one at Octroi Naka PoE, tested 244, and no one was detected at Daulatabad T-Point PoE, and three were detected by testing of 194 at Jhalta Phata PoE.
Nine passengers detected as Covid-19 patients
A total of five passengers arriving by train and four by air, in the city on Tuesday, have been reported as Covid-19 positives today. As reported earlier, the Aurangabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) health teams had conducted RT-PCR
tests on 62 passengers arriving at the railway station by trains and 11 air passengers arriving at Chikalthana Airport on May 11. The AMC received the RT-PCR reports of these passengers today. Meanwhile, the AMC health teams have conducted RT-PCR tests of 95 train passengers arriving at the railway station only (cancellation of flight service) on May 12. The administration will receive their reports by tomorrow.
Four Covid-19 spreaders detected
The 12 mobile teams (comprising AMC health and police personnel) have conducted antigen tests of 86 persons moving on the roads, in the jurisdiction of 15 police stations, and detected four Covid-19 patients on Wednesday. The testing is done in two shifts (from 9 am to 5 pm and 5 pm to 1 am) and there are six teams in each shift.