1589 COVID-19 patients missing in Delhi-NCR

1. New problem shows lapse by health authorities in Delhi-NCR

More than 1,500 COVID-19 patients are missing in the region.The health authorities are not able to trace these 1,589 patients.

2.Health authorities are not able to trace 1,589 patients who tested positive for COVID-19

This happened because these people gave wrong address and mobile numbers while being tested for COVID-19, it further reported.

3.Health authorities said, the addresses and phone numbers of these patients are wrong

The highest number of these missing patients - 1,000 - is from Faridabad followed by 266 from Gurugram, 180 from Delhi, 124 from Ghaziabad and 19 from Noida.

4. The highest number of these missing patients, 1000 is from Faridabad

The health authorities said that a patient’s medical information is uploaded on the mobile application of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) before the sample is taken.

5.Patient's medical information is uploaded on ICMR's app

The patient is then asked for mobile number and the data is uploaded only after an OTP (One-Time Password) is generated.

6. The patient's data is uploaded after an OTP is generated

In these cases, the lapse happened because these people got themselves checked at private labs, when the pandemic was just about rearing its head in India.

7.The missing patients got tested in private hospital labs

The health authorities have asked the police to help trace these patients. The authorities say that they have found 65 missing Covid-19 patients in Ghaziabad and they have been admitted to the hospital.

8.The health authorities have asked the police to help trace these patients In Faridabad, the municipal authorities have also been roped in to trace these missing patients.

Tightening the rules further, Faridabad’s civil surgeon Dr Randeep Singh Poonia said that they have made Aadhar card, identity card and home address proof mandatory.

9.Municipal authorities have been roped in to trace the patients

The authorities have already issued order in this regard, he added. Delhi, meanwhile, crossed the 3,000-mark in the number of COVID-19 fatalities after 55 deaths were recorded on Saturday.

10. Delhi crossed the 3000 mark in the number of COVID-19 fatalities

Delhi had recorded its first death on March 13 - a 68-year-old woman from Janakpuri who got the infection from her son who had travelled to Switzerland, Japan, and Italy. From then, it took exactly two months for Delhi to record the first 100 deaths due to COVID-19.On Saturday, the city recorded 2,505 new cases of COVID-19 taking the cumulative total to 97,200.

11. Delhi's COVID-19 graph is rising high

The missing patients indicate the carelessness of the health authorities and also add to the threat in the ongoing pandemic outbreak in Delhi NCR

12 Missing patients add to the threat of shooting up the ongoing pandemic outbreak