Areas in two Zirakpur societies sealed

Mohali, May 9

A day after a 74-year-old man, who had chronic lung infection, tested positive for Covid post death, health authorities sealed the area around his residence in Saini Vihar, Phase 3, Baltana.

The area around the place where he lived in Jaipuria Sunrise Greens Society, Zirakpur, was also sealed as the man lived there, along with his wife, son and daughter, before recently shifting to Saini Vihar. Civil Surgeon Manjit Singh said 14 direct contacts of the patient had been home-quarantined and their samples had also been collected.

He said the patient was cremated at the cremation ground in Sector 25 in Chandigarh today. He said health teams had home-quarantined his wife and son and were tracing his contacts for sampling.

The Civil Surgeon said a total 113 samples had been taken from the contacts of the 74-year-old man and a woman from Milth Colony in Kharar, who had tested positive after giving birth to a baby. The report of all samples were awaited by tomorrow, he said.

Meanwhile, seven persons from Jawaharpur village and one from Shakti Nagar, which is in the vicinity of the village, returned home after recovering from Covid and undergoing quarantine period today. — TNS