11 fall victim to Covid, 337 test positive in dist

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, May 26

The district reported 11 deaths due to Covid-19 on Wednesday. As many as 337 people tested positive for the virus in the district, taking the tally to 57,624.

Of the new cases, 65 were from other districts. With this, the death toll has risen to 1,337. As many as 52,925 people have recovered from Covid in the district while the number of active cases in Jalandhar is 4,235.

15-yr-old dies in Kapurthala

A 15-year-old girl is among the five persons who died of the virus in Kapurthala on Wednesday. While a number of young people are already being reported dead from Corona amidst the second wave, the 15 year old is the second youngest person whose life has been claimed by Covid so far in the district. The first was a six year old.

Epidemiologist Dr Rajiv Bhagat said, “The 15 year old was a diabetic and she had high blood sugar. She is the second person from such a young age to die of Covid in the district. The first Covid death in Kapurthala was also of a six to seven year old girl with a heart condition. So far we known only her to be Covid positive from her family. No other family member of hers who has tested positive.”

At Kapurthala, today 70 people were reported positive in the district, taking total number of positive cases to 16127. Five people died in the district today. The deceased at Kapurthala today include the 15-year-old girl from village Khalwara at Phagwara, a 59 year old man from Shorian village, a 49 year old man from Kadupur village, a 65 year old man from Sujo Kalia village and an 82 year old woman from village Nangal. So far, 457 people have died of Covid at Kapurthala.

Nawanshahr logs 60 cases

The health authorities on Wednesday reported 60 new cases of coronavirus, including 14 from Saroya block and 11 each from Muzaffarpur and Balachaur blocks. Coming as a major relief, no casualty was reported today. The district has already reported 315 deaths and 10,872 persons have contracted the virus since March last year. The active cases in the district now stand at 634. The L3 bed occupancy in the district stands at 15 with 63 patients in L2 bed facility. A total of 1.36 people in the district have been vaccinated against Covid-19 so far.

6 fatalities in Hoshiarpur

The district reported six more Covid fatalities on Wednesday, taking the death toll to 899, while with 167 fresh cases, the infection tally crossed the 26,000-mark in the district.

Giving information about the Covid cases in the district, Civil Surgeon Dr Ranjit Singh said the number of active cases in the district stood at 2,082 and 24,882 patients had recovered from the virus.

Out of 167 positive cases reported today, 15 patients were from other districts and the remaining patients were from various health blocks of the district. Among the six fatalities, five patients had died at various Hoshiarpur hospitals, while a 34-year-old patient from Mukerian died at a private hospital in Pathankot.

Meanwhile the district administration on Wednesday also declared Ghasipur, Ajjowal and Fatehpur villages in Chakkowal block of Hoshiarpur sub-division as micro-containment zones.

DC Apneet Riyait issued orders under Section 144 of the CrPC. She said only medical emergency and essential services would be allowed in the micro-containment zones. Teams of the Health Department would conduct door-to-door survey and contact tracing in these villages.