12-year-old girl among 5 test COVID-19 positive in Amravati
May 18, 2020, 16:35 IST
Amravati, May 18 () A 12-year-old girl is amongfive persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirushere in Maharashtra on Monday, taking the district's count to111, officials said.
According to a statement issued by the civil surgeon'soffice here, all the five new cases were contacts of COVID-19patients and were in institutional quarantine at a hospitalhere.
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Four of the five cases were reported from the Lalkhadiarea of the city and they were of a 12-year-old girl and threemen aged 23, 30 and 32 years, it said.
The fifth patient, a 22-year-old man, hails from theMasanganj locality, said the release.
With the new cases, the coronavirus count in Amravatidistrict has risen to 111. CORRSY RSY(This story has not been edited by www.businessinsider.in and is auto–generated from a syndicated feed we subscribe to.)