Jalandhar District reports one Covid death, 137 fresh cases

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, August 18

The district reported 137 positive cases on Tuesday, taking the Covid tally to 4,395.

A 70-year-old man also succumbed to the virus, taking the death toll to 112. A resident of Ekta Nagar, Choggitti, the deceased was reportedly battling long illness. The infected persons include an HDFC Bank manager and a businessman.

As many as 55,888 people have been tested in the district so far and reports of 51,130 people were negative. With the daily surge in positive cases, the administration has included more number of city as well rural areas in the micro and mini-containment zones.

On Tuesday, the cases were reported from areas, including Model Town, Rasta Mohalla, Jawahar Nagar, Urban Estate Phase-1, New Santoshi Nagar, New Arjun Nagar, Guru Hargovind Nagar, Shakti Nagar, Basti Gujan, Basti Sheik and New Dasmesh Nagar among others.

45 new cases in Hoshiarpur district

Out of 1,285 samples received from the lab on Tuesday, 45 new positive cases were reported in the district, taking the tally to 899. Civil Surgeon Dr Jasvir Singh said of the 45 cases reported from Hoshiarpur district, 12 are from Hoshiarpur city’s Dashmesh Nagar, Una Road, Purhiran, Dana Mandi, Shivalik Avenue, Lajwanti Nagar and Gautam Nagar areas. There are 11 cases of Ward Number 9 and 10 of Garhshankar. Apart from this, there are five cases from Paldi block and the remaining are from Tanda, Posi, Mand Pandher and Chakkowal blocks. Dr Singh said total 43,422 samples have been taken in the district so far as per the reports received from the laboratory, of which 39,406 samples are negative, while 3,141 reports were still awaited and 61 samples have been found invalid. The number of active cases is 173 and 701 patients have been cured. OC