By Express News Service
JAGATSINGHPUR: In a interval of seven days, a household of Jagatsinghpur noticed its world turning the other way up with two of its members succumbing to the lethal coronavirus and 4 extra testing constructive.The contaminated members of the family – two girls and two minors – at the moment are in residence isolation, unsure of what the long run holds for them.
The 79-year-old Chaturbhuja Barik died of Covid-19 on Tuesday, precisely every week after his 40-year-old contaminated son Deepak handed away. Chaturbhuja’s spouse, his daughter-in-law, eight-year-old granddaughter and six-year-year grandson are constructive and underneath remedy of their residence.
Deepak, an area businessman, had are available in contact with a shopkeeper for storing grains and cattle feed within the latter’s home in mid-April. While the shopkeeper was discovered Covid constructive, Deepak too developed fever, chest ache and examined constructive on April 23. Although he was in residence isolation, his situation deteriorated and he needed to be shifted to the isolation ward of district headquarters hospital the place he succumbed on April 27.
Hearing about his son’s demise, Deepak’s father who was additionally constructive, complained of respiratory points and was shifted to the Covid hospital of SCB Medical College and Hospital (SCB MCH) on April 28. He too handed away on Tuesday and the physique was cremated in Cuttack by the native Municipal Corporation.
Sarpanch of Tiruna panchayat Nirupama Das mentioned all the mandatory remedy is being supplied to the remaining 4 members within the household who’re contaminated. “There are 20 other villagers here who have been found Covid positive. I have urged the Naugaon BDO to declare the village as a containment zone”, she mentioned.