62 test positive in Nawanshahr

Tribune News Service

Nawanshahr, May 3

In the highest single day spike in Nawanshahr district, as many as 62 persons have tested positive today. The district tally has reached 85. Of these, 66 are active cases.

The 85 cases include 63 Maharashtra returnees. Previous cases of the district include a truck driver and his two contacts as well as 19 previous cases reported from the 70-year old elderly’s contact list.

As many as 130 persons, who returned from Maharashtra, have been kept under quarantine at two places in the district. While some have been kept at the Rayat Bahra institute, others are staying at a community health centre in Behram.

Nawanshar DC Vinay Bublani said in the initial stage, four returnees had been kept at the Civil Hospital of which one had tested positive, while 62 tested positive today.

Jalandhar: With four new cases, the total tally of coronavirus cases in the district has reached 124 today.

The new cases include all contacts of previous patients from Qazi Mohalla and Basti Danishmandan. The three contacts of the Basti Danishmandan woman who tested positive today are a 46-year-old male, a 40-year-old woman and a 42-year-old man.A 47-year-old resident is the contact of the Qazi Mohalla man. On Saturday and Friday, the district received 31 cases — 15 and 16 cases, respectively. Of the total positive cases in the district so far, only one is a returnee from Maharashtra.

Affected areas sealed

Hoshiarpur: After a major spike recorded in Covid-19 cases in Hoshiarpur on Saturday with 74 persons reported positive for the virus, affected areas were sealed on Sunday and surveys were conducted.

Of the 81 active positive cases in the district, 75 are pilgrims who have returned from Nanded. They were quarantined here. Three of the positive cases have been found at Kamalpur Mohalla, Hajipur village and Budhabar village. A person from Narayangarh village of Dasuya, who was among the pilgrims returned from Nanded, was also tested positive. Contact tracing was conducted in the village, which was sealed, and 15 samples, including those of family members of person found positive and others, were taken for testing.

District epidemiologist Shailesh Kumar told this correspondent that Kamalpur Mohalla and Budhabar had been sealed and contact search had been conducted in respective areas. In Kamalpur, 16 contacts had been traced while in Budhabar, eight contacts had been traced. The samples of the contacts traced in Budhabar will be taken tomorrow in the Civil Hospital. The survey is on in respective areas.

Meanwhile, 15 samples taken from Narayangarh were sent for testing. In Hoshiarpur, the entry to the Kamalpur area outside the Civil Hospital was closed, sealing the road from Prabhat Chowk from the Jalandhar side and Phagwara Chowk from the city side.