5 die, 129 test positive in Jalandhar District

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, October 7

With five more people losing battle against Covid, the toll climbed to 422 in the district on Wednesday. Similarly, 129 people tested positive for the virus, taking the district tally to 13,680.

As many as 12,098 people have been discharged so far, while 1,160 were still active and 849 people were under home isolation in Jalandhar.

Meanwhile in Kapurthala, 29 people tested positive for Covid on Wednesday. Two deaths were reported from the district including that of a 65-year-old man from Nasairabad village, who died at PGI, Chandigarh; and a 70-year-old woman from Nangal Lubana village, who died at GMC Patiala.

44 test +ve in Hoshiarpur

With the emergence of 44 new cases in Hoshiarpur district, the total number of Covid patients has risen to 4893. Civil Surgeon Dr. Jasbir Singh said that with the taking of new samples of 1750 people with suspected flu-like symptoms, the total number of samples taken so far in the district has gone up to 117313. According to reports from the lab, 111226 are negative, while 1663 reports are awaited and 127 are invalid.

The number of active cases in the district is 581 and 4135 patients have recovered. The death toll so far is 177. Out of 44 positive cases found in the district today, 13 cases are from Hoshiarpur city, while the remaining 31 cases are related to other health blocks.

Nawanshahr reports two deaths, 8 positive cases

Two Covid deaths were reported in Nawanshahr on Wednesday. Both patients had co-morbidities.

A 79-year-old resident of Sujjon block suffering from hypertension died during treatment in Ludhiana while a 72-year-old resident from Muzaffarpur block was suffering from kidney, liver and heart disease and also died in Ludhiana.

A total of eight cases were reported from Nawanshahr today. So far, 56 deaths have been reported from Nawanshahr and there are 169 active cases so far.

As per the information, as many as 838 samples were collected on Wednesday. At present, a total of 26 Covid patients are in home-isolation.

Govt to give Rs 50 Lakh ex-gratia if sanitation worker dies of Covid

Hoshiarpur: Punjab Safai Karamchari Commission chairman Geja Ram Valmiki said the Commission was committed to safeguarding the rights of safai sewaks (sanitationn workers). During a meeting with municipal officials and sanitation workers in Hoshiarpur on Wednesday, he said Rs50 lakh ex-gratia would be given by the Punjab Government, if any sanitation worker dies of Covid. He said the Commission was visiting different districts of the state to find out about it so that no needy worker was left deprived of the benefit. Geja Ram said he had come to know through the municipal authorities that none of the sweepers in the district had died of corona, which was a good news. While replying to a question of journalists, he said the Commission had written to the government to ensure regularisation of sanitation workers (hired on contract or outsourced) hoping that in the coming days more recruitment of sanitation workers would be made. He said social justice was the right of every citizen and no sanitation worker or sewerman would be allowed to be exploited. He said the initiative of the government was to provide clean environment and social justice to all. OC