Two hospitals have been placed under quarantine in the northern district of Jabbor-Rasoulov due to coronavirus concerns.
“Currently, there are 397 people in the hospital, including 182 patients, 180 medical workers and patients’ relatives, as well as 25 children in the children's department and 29 women with newborns babies in the maternity ward of the hospital,” the hospital head physician of the central district hospital in the Jabbor-Rasoulov district Dilmurod Rahmatulloyev told Asia-Plus in an interview.
“Since Habibullo Shodiyev was being treated for pneumonia and died in the hospital, the hospital has been placed under quarantine,” Rahmatulloyev said.
He further noted that a hospital in the Gulakandoz jamoat has also been placed under quarantine “because Shodiyev’s wife is in that hospital being treated for heart disease and her husband visited her in the hospital.”
“121 people are in quarantine in this hospital, including 108 medical workers and 13 patients,” Rahmatulloyev told Asia-Plus.
Recall, a 61-year-old resident of the Yangi-Hayot jamoat, Habibullo Shodiyev died in the central district hospital in the Jabbor-Rasoulov district on April 5 after being hospitalized on suspicion of contracting the coronavirus disease. Shodiyev has reportedly been tested for coronavirus twice and the results of both tests were negative. However, his 18 relatives and eleven heath workers of the hospital have been placed under quarantine.
According to Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service, the man had recently returned from a wedding in Kyrgyzstan, where 280 cases of coronavirus have been reported as of April 9.
