PU staffer, Khuda Lahora woman +ve

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 24

A 37-year-old employee of Panjab University is among two Covid cases reported from the city today.

The woman, a resident of Sector 29-B, is posted in the re-evaluation branch. She had attended the office till Friday. After the case surfaced in the university today, two buildings were partially sealed and sanitised.

The employee’s three family contacts, who live on the campus, have been quarantined. The UT Health Department has identified her 10 workplace contacts. Six of them are from the city, three from Punjab and one from Panchkula. They have been put under home quarantine.

As per officials, the PU employee is a family contact of a Covid patient from Himachal Pradesh, who is admitted to the PGI.

A 38-year-old woman from Khuda Lahora also tested positive for the virus today. She is a family contact of a Covid patient from Sector 24.

With the two fresh cases reported today, the infection tally of the city has risen to 420.

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