The number of patients who have been tested positive for COVID 19 has gone up to 27 in Madhya Pradesh, with third patient, a 61-year-old Railway guard, testing positive for the virus on Friday. The man is a native of Durga Nagar in Chandbar under the limits of Ashoka Garden police station in the city. The patient who has been to many cities including Jhansi, Nagpur, Aurangabad and others due to his job compulsions had volunteered for test at AIIMS Bhopal after he suspected related symptoms. Out of the 14 test reports forwarded by AIIMS Bhopal, the Railway employee is the only one to have tested positive. The district administration on Friday was quick to announce contentment area within one km radius of the COVID 19 patient detected positive on Friday and the father-daughter duo who had tested positive for the virus recently. The two reside in Professor Colony area. Besides, two km area where these houses are based would be treated as buffer zone. The announcement restricts movement of locals in the said areas and locals would be home quarantined. The entry-exit points of these areas would be kept under watch and health staff would keep an eye on the residents’ health. Besides, the number of positive cases has risen to 15 in Indore and two of them have already died. The Bhopal mayor Alok Sharma distributed food packets among the poor. Volunteer organisations and police officers are helping out the poor with food and other essentials. Thana staff in TT Nagar, Chhola Mandir, Chuna Bhatti, Kamla Nagar and Sukhi Sewania police stations doled out eatables, masks and essentials among the poor. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan also took stock of the situation with senior officers and social organisations in a video conference on Friday. Chouhan on Thursday had written letters to all the CMs of other state urging them let his government know if anyone of their state is stranded in Madhya Pradesh, promising all possible support including food, shelter and medicines free of cost. State government on Friday issued an information that Madhya Pradesh natives if stranded anywhere outside the state could call up the helpline number 104 or 181 and all possible help would be extended to them. Muslim religious heads across the state had called on the community to offer namaz at households. At Bhopal, the administration had only allowed five persons to offer namaz at every mosque. On Thursday late evening, Talaiya police in Bhopal had booked close to 30 persons for offering namaz at the house of local resident in Tila Jamalpura area despite a ban on gatherings amid Covid 19 lockdown. The police later booked them under sections – 188, 269 and 270 of the IPC. In Bhopal, as many as 61 persons have been booked under prohibitive provisions for roaming around pointlessly on streets and breaching guidelines against mass gatherings.

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