Cook at pvt hosp in Kolkata tests positive for COVID-19

Kolkata, Apr 26 () A cook at Belle Vue Clinic, oneof the city's top hospitals, tested positive for COVID-19,following which the medical facility shut down one of itskitchens, and placed his co-workers under home quarantine, asenior official at the facility said on Sunday.

The cook, in his early 50s, was admitted to anisolation ward of the private hospital as he complained ofuneasiness and exhibited symptoms of COVID-19, he said.

After test results confirmed he had contracted thedisease, the Belle Vue Clinic employee was immediately shiftedto Beliaghata ID hospital on Saturday, the official said.

A doctor and three nurses who treated him at theprivate facility have been put in home isolation, he said.

"The doctor and the three nurses had used protectivegears while treating him, but as a precautionary measure allthree have been sent on 14-day home quarantine.

"We have two kitchens, one of which has been sent shutdown," he said, adding that the isolation ward at thehospital, where the cook had stayed, was being disinfected.

West Bengal has reported a total of 541 COVID-19 casesso far. Of them, 18 have succumbed to the disease, the statehealth department has said.

According to the Union health Ministry, the number ofCOVID-19-stricken patients in the state stands at 571. SCHRMS RMS