COVID-19 Cure: Seven More Patients Discharged From Hospitals In India

New Delhi: Seven more people have been cured of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and discharged from various hospitals across India, officials said on Saturday.

With these, the total number of patients who have been cured in India is now 10.

Of the cured cases of COVID-19, five are from Uttar Pradesh, and one each from Rajasthan and Delhi.

“These were COVID-19 positive cases whose final test results came negative for the presence of SARS-cov-2 virus,” said a Union Health Ministry official.

As per the protocol, any person who has tested positive for the disease needs to be managed in hospital isolation for a particular period. The tests are repeated on day 14 to check for the presence of virus. If it returns negative, then another test is to be repeated within a gap of 24 hours. If that result also comes in negative, then the patient is declared to be disease free.

“Since these patients have been discharged, it means all their test results were negative,” the official added.

Last month, three initial positive cases from Kerala had been declared as disease free and discharged from hospitals. There is no report of recurrence of infection in the discharged cases.

Also on Saturday, the number of positive cases in the country reached 83 with one more new case reported from Uttar Pradesh.