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PANAJI
The 33 year-old patient from Dharwad district of Karnataka who tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday reportedly rented a bike to travel from the Goa International Airport to Panaji, where he boarded a bus to go to Dharwad.
As per the details of the patient’s travel history shared to the media in Dharwad by the District Collector of Dharwad Deepa Cholan, the man, who returned to his hometown of Dharwad from Australia travelled by air and road via Dubai, Muscat and Goa on March 11 and 12.
As per the media reports in leading dailies in Dharwad and Huballi, the man boarded an Emirates flight from Perth Australia on March 11 and landed in Dubai. He changed his flight in Dubai and headed to Muscat at 12.35 am. On March 12, he took off from Muscat in an Oman Airways flight and landed in Goa at 7 pm.
Once in Goa, the man rented a bike and travelled from Goa International Airport, Dabolim to the capital city of Panaji. He boarded an NWKRTC bus from Panaji to Gadag and alighted at Dharwad.
There were 30 passengers in the bus, six from Gadag and 11 from Adavisompaur. He self-quarantined after reaching home but reported to a private hospital as symptoms began to develop. Dharwad district authorities have begun to share the man’s travel history across all mediums with the appeal to all people to come forward if they have travelled with him.
On its part Goa’s health
department has identified seven “high risk” patients and 31 “low risk” patients after an intensive contact tracing exercise. While the low risk patients have been home quarantined, the high risk patients have been isolated at the TB Hospital in Margao, sources informed.
Speaking to The Goan, a member of the COVID-19 task force Dr Shekhar Salkar stated, “We have identified all the persons who could have come in contact with this patient. There is no need for a concern, now that all 41 patients have been placed under observation.”
