280 test +ve; 3 Omicron cases reported in Jalandhar district so far

Aparna Banerji

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Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, January 6

The district witnessed a record surge of 280 cases on Thursday. With this, the tally reached 64,288. Two new cases of Omicron variant have been reported in the district after genome sequencing, thus taking the total number of cases of this particular variant to three in Jalandhar.

While a 30-year-old Adampur resident tested positive for Omicron variant on Wednesday, a 52-year-old man who came back from France on December 28 tested positive for Omicron today. Though the 30-year-old tested positive upon his arrival at the Amritsar airport on December 21, the 52-year-old, a resident of Model Town tested positive after he returned from France to Delhi. He was also accompanied by his son who tested negative.

Meanwhile, 15 passengers on board Italy-Amritsar flight (on which 125 passengers tested positive) were from Jalandhar district.

The Civil Surgeon and the ADC waited for the passengers to take their samples for the Omicron variant, but none of the passengers turned up with the authorities and headed straight to their homes.

Health authorities said their screening would be conducted by the respective SMOs by sending screening teams to their homes tomorrow.

Civil Surgeon Dr Ranjit Ghotra, said, “Third Omicron case has been reported in Jalandhar today. The person is currently negative and is in home isolation. As many as 15 people on board the Italy-Amritsar flight have also been identified to be from Jalandhar. The 16th passenger was also attributed to Jalandhar, but is from Pathankot. The screening of all the passengers is being done as per protocol.”

11 new cases in Kapurthala

Kapurthala district reported 11 new cases today. The tally reached 17,994 . Those who tested posiitve include an 11-month-old baby, 9-year-old, 17-year-old and 19-year-old children. No death was reported in the district today. The toll stands at 556.

Meanwhile, there’s no single locality in Kapurthala, which has reported more than four cases. So far, the district has reported 17,994 positive cases and 556 deaths.

19 from Italy among 116 test +ve

Hoshiarpur: In a sharpest single-day spike in nearly six months, the health authorities reported 116 new Covid-19 cases, including 10 police personnel who were deployed at Ferozepur during the PM Narendra Modi’s rally and 19 persons who tested positive after their flight from Italy landed at Amritsar airport today.

With this, the tally has increased to 31,222, which includes 2,122 cases reported from other districts. The toll stands at 998 in the district, besides 190 active cases.

In Kapurthala, asymptomatic patients to isolate at home for seven days

As the third Covid-19 wave rages, Kapurthala Civil Surgeon Dr Gurinderbir Kaur on Thursday, released new guidelines for asymptomatic patients. Those asymptomatic or having mild symptoms, need to isolate at home for a period of seven days. Army Public School, Dhilwan, became a hotspot as 41 positive cases were reported in the last 10 days.

The Civil Surgeon said as per the new guidelines released by the Health and Family Welfare Department, patients with mild Covid symptoms have been advised to stay at home during their isolation period. She said it was essential that proper ventilation be ensured for patients in the room in which they were isolating themselves. Barring this, mild and asymptomatic patients in home isolation were also being advised to consume as many liquids as they could.

Epidemiologist Dr Rajiv Bhagat said, “In consultation with health authorities, those with mild symptoms have been advised to isolate at home for seven days. Only those who have persistent high-grade fever beyond the three-day limit will be advised institutional quarantine.” — TNS