Six contract virus in Mohali, district tally 149

Mohali, June 12

Six more Covid cases were reported from Mohali today, taking the district tally to 149.

Those infected include a 22-year-old youth from Togan village in Kharar and a 45-year-old man from Bhabat village in Zirakpur. Both were working at a medical store in Chandigarh, where a person had earlier tested positive for the virus. They have been admitted to a Covid care centre at Gian Sagar Hospital in Banur.

The other patients are a 30-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman from Janata Colony in Nayagaon and a 53-year-old woman from Adarsh Nagar in Nayagaon. They have also been admitted to Gian Sagar Hospital.

The sixth patient is a 68-year-old woman, a resident of Swastik Vihar in Zirakpur. She had recently gone to Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh to meet her daughter.

Civil Surgeon Manjit Singh said she was admitted to Fortis Hospital in Mohali on June 10 after she complained of breathlessness. She was later shifted to the Banur hospital. The district now has 30 active cases, whereas 116 patients have recovered and three have died due to the disease.

Meanwhile, panic gripped residents of Bhabat village where the wife of the 45-year-old patient runs a provision store as many villagers have come in her contact. The Health Department has sealed the area to check the spread of the virus. —TNS