11 fresh cases push Haryana tally to 225

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 18

With 11 fresh cases, Haryana’s Covid tally jumped to 225 on Saturday. There was a rise of 5.1 per cent over Friday’s count of 214. Fresh cases were reported from Gurugram (4), Sonepat (3), Palwal (2), Nuh (1) and Ambala (1).

Four residents of Sohna in Gurugram tested positive. There were among the 70 contacts of an Alwar resident who had tested positive earlier this month. They worked together in a Mewat-based firm.

In Sonepat, three persons, including a 25-year-old Delhi Police Constable posted at the Nizamuddin Markaz, tested positive.

A 50-year-old vegetable vendor also tested positive. Running an e-rickshaw earlier, he had started selling vegetables three or four days ago.

The third patient, a 21-year-old youth of Sirsi village in Karnal district, had come to Kakroi village to harvest the wheat crop using combine harvester.

After this case surfaced,

the Karnal administration declared Sirsi village a containment zone with three surrounding villages comprising the buffer zone. Samples of the patient’s family members were being collected.

In Palwal, two persons, one aged 45 years and the other 35 years, tested positive today. One was a Tablighi Jamaat member and the other a milkman who had attended a Jamaat congregation.

In Ambala, an ANM tested positive. The district reported a positive case after a week. She was on Covid duty in the containment zone.

In Nuh, a case was reported from Barota village, who was a contact of a patient. With this, Nuh’s tally reached 57, the highest among all districts. It was followed by Palwal (34), Faridabad (33), Gurugram (36) and Panchkula (17).

In view of the pandemic, the Haryana Government today decided to immediately issue joining letters to 23 newly selected professors, associate professors and assistant professors at Kalpana Chawla Government Medical College in Karnal and Shaheed Hasan Khan Mewati Government Medical College at Nalhar in Nuh by giving relaxation in character verification.

The state government decided that Group A and B employees would have to report in all district-level offices of all departments, boards and corporations, but only 33 per cent Group C and D employees would be called to office on rotation.

Social distancing would have to be maintained in the offices. However, any employee from the containment zone need not join office.

It was also stated that the Deputy Commissioner “shall have discretion in respect of attendance of number of staff and staffing pattern as per Covid situation, requirement and necessity”.

In case of mustard procurement, 9,303 farmers reported at 163 procurement centres, where about 25,263.31 MT mustard was purchased. A total of 82,886.87 MT had been procured from 32,779 farmers in the first four days of procurement.