40 samples of contacts test negative

Tribune News Service

Solan, April 9

As many as 46 more samples of contacts of three Covid positive patients were sent for lab analysis from the Nalagarh sub-division yesterday, informed health officials.

As many as 40 samples of contacts of three positive Covid cases tested Tuesday evening were all found negative. This included samples of Tablighi Jamaat members staying at the quarantine centre, staff of ESIC Katha, Gupta Hospital, CHC Nalagarh as well as the suspects from the helmet manufacturing company.

Admn relieved

The district administrations of Solan and Sirmaur have heaved a sigh of relief as 6 Covid positive Tablighi Jamaat members detected at Una yesterday had left their native places in the two districts in early March.

SP Sirmaur, Ajay Krishan Sharma, said five jamaat members who hail from Sirmaur had left their native place in Moginand and Paonta Sahib in two batches on March 7 and March 12. He said they had contracted the Covid infection during their stay at Una and have not returned to their native places ever since they left.

Notably, the three of them hail from places like Bangran and wards number 5 and 12 in Paonta Sahib while two other belong to Moginand in Nahan.

The SP said the travel history of these five jamaat members as well as two Uttar Pradesh residents, who were among nine positive cases detected yesterday at Una, has been traced at Sirmaur. The drivers, who had dropped them in private vehicles, were also got tested in March itself and they were found negative for Covid.

Another 16-year old youth, who had studied till class IX, had come to his maternal grandparents place at Billanwali in Baddi on March 7 along with his mother from his native village Haripur near Subathu. He along with his maternal uncle, who had come from Moginand at Nahan on March 13, had left for Jamaat meeting at Una the same day.

His mother had come back to Haripur village on March 17. A medical check-up of his five family members was done by the local health authorities today and they were found fit, informed DSP Parwanoo, Yogesh Rolta.

In a bizarre case, two inmates of a quarantine centre located at HIMUDA Hall near LIC office at Parwanoo quarreled among themselves and damaged the centre building. DSP Parwano, Yogesh Rolta, said Rajat, a Shazadpur resident in Haryana, and Dhani Ram of Kotkhai tehsil in Shimla fought and broke the iron grill of the windows and the railing of the stairs. A case was registered against them on a complaint made by the HIMUDA official.

In another development, the Baddi police booked two employee of a pharmaceutical unit at Baddi for roaming on foot in the area this afternoon while about 11 others were warned to refrain from doing so.