4-year-old among 6 contract virus in Chandigarh

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 9

The city today reported six fresh Covid cases, taking the tally to 326.

The first case is of a 42-year-old man, who is a driver of a senior RSS functionary and has been living in the office of the RSS at Sector18. The patient had come in contact with the senior RSS functionary after his return from Delhi and took him for Covid test to a private laboratory in Sector 11. The senior RSS man is a resident of Himachal Pradesh and has a history of coming in contact with a Covid patient during his visit to Delhi.

A four-year-old son of a Covid positive CISF constable has also been found infected. The constable’s three workplace contacts have tested negative for the virus, while his three other workplace contacts were sampled today.

A 28-year-old man from Subhash Nagar in Mani Majra, who had returned from Gurugram, has contracted the virus. He had returned to the city on June 7 with symptoms of fever and cough. On his return, he went straightaway to a hospital for a check-up where he was sampled. He has six family contacts. A 43-year-old man, a medicine distributor in Panchkula and resident of Sector 21 here, has tested positive for Covid. He has four family contacts and all of them are asymptomatic.

A 35-year-old man from Sector 16, whose father owns a medical shop in the sector, has been found infected. He has five family contacts, of which, two are symptomatic. His father and mother had travelled to Sangrur (Punjab) around 10 days ago. He has six community contacts, who are work at their shop.

From Bapu Dham Colony, a 56-year-old woman has tested positive for Covid. There are 36 active cases in the city, while 285 have already been cured and discharged. The city has reported five deaths.

Badnore express concern over returnees

During a war room meeting on Tuesday, UT Administrator VP Singh Badnore said the district authorities should keep a watch on persons coming from other states, so that infection was detected at the earliest and contained. Badnore said Chandigarh was going to meet new Covid challenges after influx of travellers from bordering states, especially Delhi. He said the Administration was going to trace, track and test such cases, and also request them to self-monitor, reveal any symptoms which can be medically treated.

The Administrator directed the Principal Secretary, Health, to keep all hospitals and health centres ready to accommodate patients in case there was a second surge of Covid incidence, as the borders were now open.

Badnore also suggested that the PGI authorities should also examine the density of infection among various patients and compare it with that of other states, so that further Covid policy decisions could be taken.

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