25-yr-old woman infected at CHC?

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, April 29

The 25-year-old woman from Lauhaka village, who tested positive for Covid-19, was probably in the wrong place at the wrong time, as five persons who returned from Hazoor Sahib were also screened at the Community Health Centre (CHC), Sursingh, on the same day of her delivery on April 25.

With no history of travel, the pregnant woman from Baserke was spending her pregnancy days at her maternal village in Lauhaka, from where she was taken to Sursingh CHC for delivery. An official of the administration said: “She might have got infected at the centre, but we are not sure about it.”

The officials had taken the sample of the woman before discharging her as a precaution. However, to the astonishment of the authorities, she tested positive and was later shifted to the isolation ward. The Health Department has now sent the sample of her newborn baby to the lab at Government Medical College Amritsar for testing, the report of which is awaited.

Deputy Commissioner Pardeep Sabarwal said: “We have sent around 180 samples and reports are awaited.” He said no new case was reported from the district on Wednesday.

After remaining in the green zone in the last three days, the district now has eight positive cases, seven of them being those who returned from Hazoor Sahib. When asked about the positive female patient, Sabarwal said: “It is not known yet as to how she acquired the infection.” He, however, confirmed that she was at Sursingh centre the day the five patients were screened. As all were asymptomatic, they were sent home initially.

Returned from rajasthan, 107 passengers quarantined

• The district administration has quarantined 107 passengers, who returned from Rajasthan on Wednesday. Civil Surgeon Dr Jugal Kishore said most of the returnees were manual labourers working in different districts of Rajasthan
• The administration had earlier quarantined 221 passengers, who had returned from Nanded, Maharashtra, till Tuesday. An official said no new passengers from Nanded arrived on Wednesday. The Civil Surgeon said the passengers were screened at Fazilka after they entered Punjab. From there, they were sent to Amritsar