34 stranded Sikh pilgrims from Nanded reach Mohali

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Tribune News Service

Mohali, April 28

Thirty-four Sikh pilgrims stranded at Hazur Sahib in Nanded, Maharashtra, and two students from Kota, Rajasthan, returned to the city late yesterday night.

Deputy Commissioner Girish Dayalan said the pilgrims and the students had been kept at the district quarantine centre in Sector 70. He said these persons had been quarantined after five asymptomatic persons, who had recently returned from Hazur Sahib, tested positive for Covid in Tarn Taran district.

Dayalan said instead of basic screening, these persons would be tested through PCR and in case, they were found positive, they would be quarantined at an isolation facility and if they were found negative, they would be put under home quarantine for 14 days.

Meanwhile, sampling teams of the District Health Department today collected a total of 88 samples from the district quarantine centre in Sector 70. Of these, 36 samples were of the pilgrims returning from Hazur Sahib, including the bus driver and the conductor, while two samples were of the students.

Civil Surgeon Dr Manjit Singh said apart from this, samples of 25 close associates of two positive cases, which surfaced in Jawaharpur village today, had also been taken. He said a total of 20 samples were taken from the patients who came to the district hospital for examination, while five samples were taken from a hospital in Kharar. He said that these patients came to flu counters set up at government hospitals for examination of cough, sore throat and other ailments. Their samples were taken as a precautionary measure.

District Epidemiologist Dr Renu Singh, Dr Harmandeep Kaur and Dr HS Cheema were also present on the occasion.