In highest single-day spike, Chandigarh reports nine new coronavirus cases

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, April 27

Chandigarh reported nine more coronavirus cases on Monday, officials said—the largest single-day spike the city has seen yet.

Five people who worked at Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32—three women doctors, a ward attendant and a man who worked on the hospital’s housekeeping staff—tested positive for the infection.

Another community contact of the ward attendant also tested positive of Covid-19.

A 19-year-old woman from Sector 52 who is a contact of a person from Bapu Dham colony who recently tested positive was also diagnosed with the infection.

A 41-year-old man and a 65-year-old woman, both from the same household in Sector 30, tested positive.

The development takes the Covid-19 tally for the union territory to 45.