Dehradun, May 24 -- Two women, including a Doctor from AIIMS Rishikesh, were detected covid positive in Uttarakhand following which the state government has been alerted to increase surveillance of the people coming from outside.

Women found positive had recently returned from Bangaluru and Gujarat.

According to the state health director Sunita Tamta both Corona positive patients are under medication and one of them is admitted at All India Institute of Medical Sciences(AIIMS) Rishikesh.

In her statement to the media Tamta claimed that the covid-19 patients have their recent travel histories. One of them is a doctor at AIIMS who returned from Bangaluru while other came from Gujarat to take part in religious functions in Rushikesh. Tamta ...