A 35-year-old doctor from the Delhi State Cancer Institute has been tested positive for the coronavirus disease forcing authorities to suspend the hospital’s out-patient clinics to sanitise the premises, officials said on Wednesday.
Doctor belonging from the institute’s preventive oncology department has been admitted at the Dr Baba Saheb Ambedkar Hospital in Rohini.
Officials said the source of his infection is unclear.
“The doctor had no history of foreign travel or treating any Covid-19 patients. So, the source of the infection is still not known,” an official from the Delhi government’s health department, said.
“His brother and sister-in-law did travel to the UK in February, but they haven’t tested positive for the infection,” the official quoted above said.
His case is fourth in the Capital to test positive of coronavirus disease as two Mohalla Clinic doctors and a private practitioner from Hari Nagar have been reported to have contracted the disease.
A doctor couple from two Delhi Mohalla Clinics in the northeast region had tested positive for the coronavirus disease on Tuesday.