Haryana sees 26 new Covid cases in a day

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 4

A total of 26 Covid cases were recorded in the state today, with the total number climbing to 70. Palwal district recorded the biggest jump with 13 new cases, all Tablighi Jamaat attendees, testing positive.

The total figure included 15 patients who had been discharged. The state now had 55 active cases. According to officials, Tablighi Jamaat members from other parts of the country who had entered the state before the lockdown accounted for a majority of the 26 fresh cases.

The Health Department bulletin said Palwal had the maximum number of active cases in the state at 16, including the 13 reported today. Bhiwani and Gurugram reported two fresh cases each, it said.

Of the 70 cases, the bulletin said, one person was from Nepal and 20 from other states. They comprised five from Tamil Nadu, three each from Kerala and West Bengal, two each from Telangana and Bihar and one each Punjab, Delhi, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra.

A Rohtak woman who died at a Delhi hospital yesterday was not mentioned in the bulletin while the first casualty, a 67-year-old man from Ambala who died on Wednesday, was included today.

Biggest jump in Palwal

The district set a new record when 13 persons were found positive in a single day. This pushed the tally to 17. Dr Barhmdeep Singh, Civil Surgeon, said the 16 positive cases had come from other parts of the country to take part in the Tablighi Jamaat congregation.

He said they had been traced by the district administration after 12 persons were detected, three of whom tested positive on April 2. They arrived on March 13. He said 10 of the 12 persons were Bangladesh nationals and one each was from Bihar and Assam.

He said 88 persons who came in contact with them were detected. The samples of 56 were sent for testing, 13 of which tested positive. All 16 patients were being shifted to the Government Medical College at Nalhar in Nuh district.

A total of 274 persons who had come in contact with positive or suspected cases were identified. The samples of 70 persons were collected, 51 of which were found negative.

A total of 465 persons were still under surveillance. A 68-year-old local resident, who was the first case, was discharged after recovery.

8 cases in Faridabad

The number of cases in the district rose to 14, with eight more cases being reported. A spokesperson of the administration said five of them had attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation.

Three of them were local residents, including a couple residing in the Surajkund area who had come from Gwalior recently. The parents of the third patient, a local youth, had tested positive last week.

He said the new cases were admitted to hospital and 42 persons whose reports were awaited have been quarantined and kept in isolation.

Dr Ram Bhagat, Deputy Civil Surgeon, said 1,117 persons had been screened and 967 were still under surveillance. Of the 190 samples tested so far, 134 were found negative. A 53-year-old woman who had tested positive was discharged after recovery.

Bhiwani reports two cases

The district reported its first two cases as one person each from Sandwa and Manheru villages tested positive. They were quarantined at the Civil Hospital in Bhiwani. They had attended the Tablighi Jamaat event in Delhi.

Health officials said they had traced 14 contacts of the patients and quarantined them. The two villages were sealed for outsiders and 50 houses adjoining the residences of the positive cases sanitised.

Father-son duo positive

Gurugram registered two positive cases, with a father-son doctor duo testing positive at a local hospital.

First case in Kaithal

One of the four Kaithal residents who returned from the congregation in Delhi was found to be infected.

Rohtak woman Dies, 2nd death in Haryana

Rohtak: A 72-year-old Covid-positive woman of Rohtak, who was suffering from multiple ailments, including hypertension, diabetes, electrolyte imbalance and kidney failure, died in New Delhi on Friday. As her condition did not improve, she was referred to Delhi. Dr Amit Mann, the Rohtak-based nephrologist at whose hospital the woman was admitted initially, said the woman had no history of foreign travel nor did she have any symptoms. Rohtak Civil Surgeon Dr Anil Birla said the woman’s son, who accompanied her, has tested negative, while her daughter was quarantined at her home here. TNS

Jamaat attendees returning after March 1 to be tested

• Health Minister Anil Vij said all those who returned from Tablighi Jamaat after March 1 would be tested for Covid. He was presiding over a review meeting on pandemic with officers of the Health Department on Saturday.
• Vij said every person in the state who came in contact with the Jammat attendees should inform the administration so that they could also be tested.
• He said 2.5 lakh personal protective equipment kits were ordered, of which some had arrived and distributed in all civil hospitals of the state. TNS

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30 who attended Surat meet test negative

• The samples of 30 people belonging to the Muslim community, who were quarantined at Radha Soami Satsang Centre, have tested negative for Covid. They had attended a gathering in Surat.
• Two more samples have been sent for testing. One of them had been to Markaz Masjid in Nizamuddin, but he had returned on March 3. He didn’t attend the gathering which was organised there later. The second person is a doctor, working at KCGMC in Karnal. TNS

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