Chandigarh reports one death, 35 new coronavirus cases

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, July 31

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Chandigarh reported one death and 35 new coronavirus cases on Friday, officials said—developments that take the union territory’s infection tally to 1,051 with 15 deaths.

A 46-year-old woman from Kajheri tested positive two days after she was brought dead to the Government Multi-Speciality Hospital in Sector 16. She had no pre-existing health conditions, and was asymptomatic when she died, the UT’s medical bulletins said. She however did complain of severe and radiating abdominal pain, the bulletin said.

Three of her family and four community contacts have been isolated and their swabs taken for testing, the bulletin showed.

Of the remaining 34 cases, 20 were contacts of previously diagnosed cases—14 of them family members and the rest, workplace contacts.

Eight of a family tested positive in Sector 32—the largest group of people testing positive in one place on Friday.

Three people employed at GMSH-16 and workplace contacts of a person were among those who tested positive. Two workplace contacts of a PGI employee were also among the new cases.

The UT now has 369 active cases.