Dera Bassi’s Jawaharpur village reports two more positive cases; Mohali tally stands at 53

Tribune News Service
Mohali, April 12

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Two more people tested positive for coronavirus in Dera Bassi’s Jawaharpur village on Sunday, taking Mohali district’s tally to 53.

Of that number, 36 have been reported from that village alone.

Two women aged 55 and 80 whose family had already tested positive were diagnosed with the infection on Sunday.

They have been admitted in the isolation ward at Gian Sagar Hospital in Banur.

Mohali Civil Surgeon Dr Manjit Singh Civil said that helath teams were now taking swabs of all those people they were in touch with, including other family members.

None of the 36 patients have any travel history. Most of them were asymptomatic, and were diagnosed with the infection only after testing.

Reports said some members of Tablighi Jamaat—a sect that held a religious congregation last month and that has since led authorities to diagnose hundreds of coronavirus cases among its members—had stayed in the village, but have now left.

Mohali Deputy Commissioner Girish Dayalan said that the district administration was undertaking extensive contact tracing and sampling.

Authorities are treating the village as a coronavirus cluster—-t he district administration has already sealed Jawaharpur, along with other villages such as Devigarh and Mehmudpur villages, as part of its cluster containment strategy. Punjab police have sent 75 cops with three PCR vehicles to the area.