City Covid count 74

Two cases each reported from Bapu Dham, Sector 30 and 52

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 3

With six more Covid-19 cases being reported today, the total number of persons infected with the virus in the city reached 74.

A 19-year-old woman from Bapu Dham Colony was found positive today. She delivered a baby at the Government Multi-Specialty Hospital (GMSH), Sector 16, today. The baby has been found negative for the virus. Both are in a good condition.

Sources said she was admitted to the hospital on April 28 as she complained of pain in her abdomen.

She lives with her husband in Shastri Nagar in Mani Majra and had come to her in-laws house in Bapu Dham two days ago. What is worrying for the officials is that she is not part of the chain of the GMCH-32 ward attendant, the first positive case here. Even her house falls outside the area sealed by the authorities here.

The woman has 12 household contacts at the colony in Sector 26 and two family contacts at Shastri Nagar, Mani Majra. Over 100 of her contacts have been home-quarantined.

On Wednesday night, five more persons from the city had tested positive. Two cases were reported from a house in Sector 52 where a niece of a positive case of Bapu Dham had earlier tested positive. Her mother (39) and brother (14) have now been found positive. One of these cases has 48 community contacts.

The 39-year-old woman used to work as a sweeper at Aashreya – a home for orphaned and abandoned mentally challenged persons. She came in a contact with 20 persons in the institute. The whole staff has been home-quarantined. New staff has been deputed there now. She had attended the marriage anniversary of her brother in Bapu Dham on April 17.

Two cases are of Sector 30. They are the wife (32) and a daughter (10) of a Covid patient.

Besides, a case of a 32-year-old man from Bapu Dham was reported. He is a community contact of the first Covid patient at the colony. He has five household contacts and eight family contacts living in the same building.