8 die of virus in Hoshiarpur, toll nears 900-mark

Our Correspondent

Hoshiarpur, May 24

The district reported eight more Covid fatalities, taking the toll to 890, while 226 fresh cases were reported on Monday. Civil Surgeon Dr Ranjit Singh said the number of active cases in the district stood at 2,222 and 24,355 patients had recovered from the virus. Out of the total cases reported today, 11 patients were reported from other districts and the remaining were from various health blocks of the district. Among the casualties, four patients had died at Jalandhar hospitals, three died at Hoshiarpur hospitals and one died at an Amritsar hospital.

The district administration on Monday also declared Langeri village in Paldi block of Garhshankar sub-division and Adamwal village of Hoshiarpur 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 do contact tracing in Langeri and Adamwal villages. In addition, all positive cases will be shifted to health centres as per the protocol. The DC said the areas had been declared micro-containment zones for 10 days. She said legal action under the Disaster Management Act, 2005, would be taken against the violators.

100% vaccination in Ram Colony Camp village

With concerted efforts of the district administration and health teams, Ram Colony Camp village has also become one of the villages with 100 per cent vaccination of eligible beneficiaries. Also, state Industries and Commerce Minister Sunder Sham Arora visited the village and appreciated the efforts of the panchayat, villagers and health team for the task. Besides eligible villagers, inmates of a juvenile home and an old age home have also been vaccinated.

Lauding the panchayats which got their villages 100 per cent vaccinated, the minister also appealed to the panchayats of other villages to have all eligible beneficiaries inoculated at the earliest in larger public interest. The minister also interacted with villagers and medical teams regarding vaccination and emphasised that strict adoption of Covid-appropriate behaviour and vaccination of masses was the best way to keep the virus at bay.

6 held for violating curfew

The district police have arrested six persons for violating weekend curfew. The Bullowal police arrested Santokh Singh of Mandialan village, Jatinder Singh of Chakk Raju Singh village, Nasib Singh of Bhela village, Jalandhar and Palwinder Singh of Madialan village, who were present at an electrician’s shop around 8.40 pm last night. The city police arrested Jaggu Rai of New Sukhiabad, Hoshiarpur, while he was selling fruits near Tagore Park at 6.40 pm on Sunday.

Similarly, the Model Town police arrested Himanshu, manager of More Supermarket near Ramgarhia Chowk in the city at around 3 pm as the shutter of the store was half-closed but several customers were making purchases inside the store. Separate cases under Section 188 of the IPC were registered.