Chandigarh, April 30: With the surfacing of 11 more cases of coronavirus, including 10 pilgrims, the total count in the district has gone up to 84.
The other person found positive is an employee of the PGI and a resident of Mullanpur village in the district. He was in contact with the Nayagaon resident, also a PGI employee undergoing treatment at the isolation ward at PGI Chandigarh.
The 30-year-old person from Nayagaon who was working as sanitation worker in the Covid ward of the PGI, had tested positive on April 19 while four members of his family had tested positive on April 20. Later, another Nayagaon resident and also a PGI employee had tested positive on April 23.
Giving details, Deputy Commissioner Girish Dayalan said that of the 41 samples of the pilgrims who had arrived from Nanded 16 had tested positive. He said besides these, another pilgrim, a resident of Ambala, had tested positive.
He said the pilgrims who had arrived in the city had been kept at a quarantine centre in Sector 70. He said those tested positive have now been admitted to the Covid Care Centre at Gian Sagar Hospital in Banur.
Dayalan said health teams had been deputed to take the samples of the remaining members of the family and other contacts in Mullanpur village. He said that as of now 30 people had been cured of the disease while the number of active patients in the district was 52. He said of the 43 patients from Jawaharpur only 25 are active coronavirus positive cases undergoing treatment at Gian Sagar Hospital.
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The positive case, Balwinder Singh Pappi, had come in contact with 16 people in the district and the teams are tracing them.
Meanwhile, government ambulance drivers refused to bring in Covid-19 suspect patients as they claimed that they were not given the PPE kits. Following this, NGOs ambulances were asked to bring suspected cases.
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Muktsar: A 40-year-old man of Kaoni village in Gidderbaha subdivision here, a Nanded returnee, tested coronavirus positive in Muktsar district on Thursday. He was home-quarantined.
It takes the district’s total positive count to two–one Nanded returnee and one Tablighi Jamaat congregation attendee.
Besides, the local health authorities have written to the laboratory to clear the status of two more Nanded returnees. Their report is not clear, say the health officials.
Dr Paramdeep Sandhu, nodal officer, Covid-19, Muktsar, said, “The reports of two persons had come negative on Thursday, but it came positive on Thursday. We had sent their samples just once, thus have now written to the laboratory to clear their status
