8 Delhi returnees Covid +ve in Kangra

Tribune News Service
Shimla, June 11

With 19 new cases being reported today, the total number of Covid cases in the state has shot up to 470.

Eight persons tested Covid positive in Kangra district during the day. The patients had come back from Delhi and were in home quarantine.

They have been shifted to Covid containment centres in Baijnath, Dadh and Dharamsala. Three patients have recovered in Kangra.

Two cases in Chamba

Two more persons tested positive in Chamba district today. The patients are 23-year-old man from Mornu village, who had returned from Gurugram on June 2 and was in home quarantine, and 25-year-old woman from Shoolani, who had returned from Delhi on May 28 and had been in institutional quarantine at Banikhet.

CMO Rajesh Guleri said both had now been shifted to the Covid Containment Centre. Chamba district has now registered 34 cases of coronavirus of which 13 are active cases and 21 have recovered. He said of the 96 samples collected yesterday, 94 tested negative.

Two infected in Solan

Two new Covid cases were detected in Solan this morning, taking the tally to 37 in the district. A 44-year-old patient of Kaduwana village in Baddi was suffering from fever. His samples were taken on June 9. He is a former pradhan of Gullerwala panchayat.

Health officials said he had gone to a local hospital for the treatment of his mother and also visited government offices and met villagers of his panchayat. As many as 18 persons, including five members of his family and neighbours, have been identified as his primary contacts. The staff of the SDM office, Nalagarh, and the police station, Baddi, have been quarantined after a former panchayat pradhan tested Covid positive. These places have been sanitised.

The second patient was a truck driver who had come back from Ambala on June 1 and had been staying in his truck since then. He hails from Sainimajra village in Nalagarh. Both have been shifted to ESIC Hospital, Katha, at Barotiwala. There were 16 active cases in the district while 17 persons have been cured and four have migrated out of the district.

Youth positive in Sirmaur

A 17-year-old youth, whose mother was found infected yesterday, also tested positive at Nahan, taking the tally of positive cases to 23 in Sirmaur district.

Deputy Commissioner RK Pruthi said he was being shifted to the Covid Care Centre at Trilokpur and the whole family was in isolation while other family members, including his father and sister, had tested negative.