7 new cases, tally reaches 274 in Haryana

Chandigarh, April 25

With four cases from Gurugram and one each from Ambala, Sonepat and Hisar, the state’s tally mounted toIn Gurugram, four women paramedics of Medanta hospital tested positive for Covid. The district health authorities wrote to the hospital highlighting a pattern of transmission and asking them to identify the source of the infection.

At Ambala, a 42-year-old man of Tharva village tested positive today. He was suffering from chronic diabetes for the past 25 years. He also had kidney ailments for which he was undergoing dialysis daily for the past year.

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He had reported to Ambala Cantonment Civil Hospital on Thursday with serious respiratory problem following which he was shifted to the PGIMER, Chandigarh. There, he was tested and admitted for treatment.

At Sonepat, a four-year-old girl tested positive. Her mother had tested positive on Friday while her father, employed at Babu Jagjiwan Ram hospital in Jahangirpuri, Delhi, had tested positive earlier.

At Hisar, one person tested positive today at Dharoli village in Adampur block.

A staff nurse at Babu Jagjiwan Ram Hospital in Delhi tested positive for Covid today. She is a resident of Nandwani Nagar, a locality in Sonepat, and was going to the hospital in Delhi in a car daily along with another Covid-positive staff nurse from Saraswati Vihar Colony.

Her sample was collected by the hospital in Delhi on Friday. She is back at her home here in Sonepat. But her case will be counted in Delhi’s tally.

After including 14 Italian nationals, the cumulative number of positive cases touched 288 today. As many as 191 patients have been discharged.

With 1,425 tests in the past 24 hours, the cumulative number of total tests in the state touched 20,270 today with 17,787 coming negative and 2,196 results are pending. The number of tests touched 800 per million. On Friday, it was 743 per million. — TNS