COVID-19 positive woman travels from Vadodara to Mumbai via train, booked

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A Dahisar resident was booked recently for allegedly travelling on a train from Vadodara to Mumbai on March 24 despite being COVID-19 positive, as per a complaint by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).

She was instructed to undergo 14-day home quarantine after getting discharged from SSG Hospital in Vadodara the previous day.

The woman, 53-year-old Taruna Nayak, is currently at Dahisar Checknaka Covid Centre and will get discharged in a day or two.

The authorities are also concerned about those who came in contact with her while she travelled on the train from Vadodara.

Nayak visited her relatives in Vadodara last month to attend a family event where she contracted COVID-19, stated a report in The Times of India.

"The hospital she was admitted to made a mistake. They got her discharged and asked her to undergo 14-day quarantine," said a civic official.

The woman then approached her relative but they got her a train ticket to Mumbai as they did not have the space to accommodate her.

"Nayak was helpless. She boarded the train on March 23 and reached Mumbai the next day. A resident and local corporator informed about BMC about her arrival saying that he suspects she is positive. A team went to her Kandarpada home and confirmed. We got hold of the discharge card of SSG Hospital in Vadodara where Nayak was admitted and the RT-PCR test report confirmed she was positive," said BMC sanitary inspector, Pravin Lad in the first information report (FIR).

MHB Colony senior inspector PG Yele said the woman has been booked. "She is currently undergoing treatment at Dahisar's Covid Centre. Chargesheet will be filed in the court and it will decide the further course of action," he said.