Chhattisgarh: 2 more COVID-19 patients discharged; active cases stand at 21

Two more COVID-19 patients, including a health personnel, were discharged from a government-run hospital at Raipur in Chhattisgarh on Thursday (May 7) after they recovered from the infection, officials said.

With this, the total number of discharged patients has reached 38 in the state, which now has 21 active cases, they said. “A 35-year-old nursing officer of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Raipur and a 25-year-old migrant labourer, both men, were discharged this afternoon after their two consecutive tests came out negative for the infection,” a public relations officer of the AIIMS in Raipur said.

The migrant labourer, hailing from Jharkhand, was kept along with other labourers from his state at a camp in Surajpur district of the state, he said. “Now, 21 patients, including a police constable and some migrant labourers, are undergoing treatment in the isolation ward of the institute and their condition is stable,” he added.

COVID-19 positive cases in Chhattisgarh stand at 59, while no new cases were reported today. Zero deaths have been reported so far, and 38 people have been discharged.

The number of active cases stood at 21, while 22,188 people have been tested so far.