New Delhi|HL
While serving the covid patients 37 doctors at Delhi’s Sir Ganga Ram Hospital have tested positive for coronavirus. 32 of them have mild symptoms and are in home isolation, five are admitted in the hospital itself for treatment.
All the 37 doctors who have tested positive were vaccinated and received both shots of vaccine..
“Serving Covid patients at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, 37 doctors of the hospital have tested positive for Covid-19. Majority of these corona warriors have mild symptoms. Thirty-two doctors are in home isolation and rest five are admitted in the hospital,” a hospital source was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.
This comes as Delhi is facing a steep rise in coronavirus cases, with 7,437 new Covid-19 cases detected in the past 24 hours.
Delhi reported 7,546 Covid-19 cases on November 19 last year.
On Thursday, Delhi also reported 24 deaths. With this, its overall toll has risen to 11,157. This was the third consecutive day when over 5,000 fresh coronavirus cases were reported in Delhi.
As per the Delhi government’s latest Covid-19 bulletin, Delhi tested 91,170 samples in the last 24 hours, of which 7,437 have tested positive for Covid-19. The day’s case positivity rate was 8.10 per cent while the overall case positivity rate stands at 4.57 per cent.
The hospital management is taking care of all doctors and they are under observation.
