3 more Covid cases in Solapur

Kolhapur: Solapur city reported three more cases of Covid-19 on Saturday. With this, the total number of Covid-19 cases rose to 114 in the district.

District administration is waiting for 299 reports, for which throat swab samples have been sent.

District collector Milind Shambharkar said that the three Covid-19 patients— all of them male—are from Solapur city areas which include Gawli Vasti and police headquarters. Shambharkar said that all the three patients have shown symptoms of severe acute respiratory infections (SARI).

District administration received a total of 32 reports on Saturday of which 29 were negative.

Shambarkar said that 825 patients are currently in institutional quarantine. Not a single suspected or confirmed patient has been discharged so far.

Throat swab sample of 19 patients from Gherdi village in Sangola taluka have tested negative. All of them had come into close contact with a Covid-19 patient.

Similarly, as many as 64 throat swab samples of the people, who had come into contact with a Covid-19 patient from Penur village in Mohol taluka also tested negative. This includes 48 people from Pandharpur and 16 from Mohol. However, all of them have been kept in institutional quarantine.

Throat swab sample of 78 people from Chapalgaon in Akkalkot taluka tested negative, Shambharkar said.