Four fresh cases in Mohali, count 19

Tribune News Service

Mohali, April 6

Four new cases of Covid-19 have surfaced in the district, taking the total count to 19.

A 30-year-old son of a man, who had attended the Tabligh Jamaat at Nizamuddin in Delhi recently, has tested positive while the other three fresh cases are of immediate family members of a 43-year-old man from Jawaharpur village in Dera Bassi, who had already tested positive.

Deputy Commissioner Girish Dayalan said the new case from Mohali town was that of a resident of Sector 68, whose father had tested positive on April 3. He is admitted to Gian Sagar Hospital at Banur. He said 26 samples of contacts of the Covid-19 patients had been sent for testing. A total of five Covid patients had been cured, he added.

The other three cases are from Jawaharpur village, where a panch had earlier tested positive. Now, his father (aged 67), wife (43) and brother (38) have tested positive.

The DC said four more persons had returned to their homes today after their samples tested negative for the virus. One is a male resident of Sector 69 while the other two are sisters belonging to Phase 3A, aged 69 and 74. The fourth patient to go home is an 80-year-old woman.

Dayalan said a total of 1,458 persons were placed under home quarantine. Of these, 1,157 had completed the quarantine period, he added.

He said the containment protocol was being strictly followed and the district administration was ensuring that sanitisation was done at regular intervals.

Civil Surgeon Manjit Singh said the three Covid-19 positive cases from Dera Bassi had been admitted to the Banur hospital. The condition of the trio was stable. “We are taking samples from their areas. Their contacts are being traced. The work is on to identify others as per the lists being provided to us,” he said.

Of the 24 samples collected so far from the close contacts of the patient, three were found positive for Covid-19 while 13 tested negative. The reports of eight were awaited.

He stated that after the cases were confirmed, the local administration cordoned off the village and containment plan was being set in place.

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