After rise in Covid cases, affected areas sealed in Hoshiarpur

Our Correspondent

Hoshiarpur, May 3

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 78 active positive cases in the district, 75 are pilgrims who have returned from Nanded. They were quarantined here. Three positive cases have been found — one each from Kamalpur Mohalla, Hajipur village and Budhabar village.A person from Narayangarh village of the Dasuya subdivision, 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.