In highest single-day spike, Chandigarh reports nine new coronavirus cases
Five people on the staff of GMCH-32 test positive for the virus; UT tally now 45
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Chandigarh, April 27
Chandigarh reported nine more coronavirus cases on Monday, officials said—the largest single-day spike the city has seen yet.
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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.
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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.
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