Chandigarh, June 17: Three more positive cases from Sector 25 were reported on Wednesday. They were family contacts of a positive case reported on Tuesday.
Eight more cases of Covid were reported from the city today, taking the tally to 368.
On Tuesday, two fresh cases surfaced in Sector 41, three were reported from Khuda Ali Sher and one each from Sector 25, Bapu Dham Colony and Ram Darbar.
A 35-year-old man, a resident of Sector 25, is among the new cases reported today. He works at an office of the Punjab Government in Sector 35. He had last attended the office on June 4. The patient has 18 workplace contacts and seven of them belong to the city. His four family members have been sampled for Covid while 10 community contacts are currently asymptomatic.
Two women from Sector 41, aged 22 and 54, who are family contacts of a Covid case of Delhi, have also tested positive for the virus.
Three new patients are from Khuda Ali Sher — a 74-year-old man, a 55-year-old woman and a two-year-old boy.
They are family contacts of an infected person who had returned from Uttar Pradesh.
A 12-year-old boy from Bapu Dham Colony, who is a family contact of a Covid patient, has also contracted the virus.
A 58-year-old man from Ram Darbar has also tested positive for Covid. He is a workplace contact of four cases in Punjab. They work at a private factory in Dera Bassi. He has two family contacts, who are asymptomatic, besides 23 community contacts.
Meanwhile, an 80-year-old woman from Bapu Dham Colony was discharged from the PGI today. She has been shifted to Sood Dharamshala, a post-discharge quarantine facility.
