Two private hospitals in the city had to shut down a part of their facilities after a patient admitted in each tested positive for Covid-19, officials said on Saturday.

A woman who gave birth to a child last Sunday at the Bhagirathi Neotia Woman and Child Care Centre on Rawdon Street has tested positive for Covid-19, said an official of the hospital.

About 25 doctors and nurses and other employees of the hospital have been quarantined. The hospital has shut down the floor where the woman was admitted. All patients from the floor have been shifted.

The operating theatre of the hospital will be shut till Sunday for fumigation.

“Two days after the childbirth, the woman had fever on Tuesday. The next day her sample was sent for the Covid-19 test. The report came on Thursday and it was positive,” said an official of the hospital.

The newborn’s sample was sent, too. It was negative.

The woman has been shifted to a private hospital off EM Bypass.

“She was in a cabin, so other patients did not need to be quarantined,” said the official.

“Surgeries did take place after the woman gave birth, but the operating theatre is sanitised after every surgery.”

At the Institute of Neurosciences in Mullickbazar, a patient tested positive on Friday. The man, who suffers from Parkinson’s disease, was admitted with lower back pain last Wednesday.

“We put him in the isolation unit of the intensive therapy unit. Ten patients on the floor where the intensive therapy unit is located has been shifted. The coronavirus patient has been shifted to another private hospital. The ITU is being fumigated,” an official said.