Jalandhar district’s Covid graph up from 255 to 707 in June

Aparna Banerji

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, June 28

With 17 more positive cases, the Covid tally crossed the 700 mark in the district. It reached 707 on Sunday. In June itself, the district tally has risen by 452 cases.

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With the death of a 73-year-old woman of Lamma Pind, the toll in the district reached 21. New cases include four children aged 4, 12, 8 and 6 years. They include patients from areas, including Lamma Pind, Sant Nagar, Kalia Colony, Gopal Nagar, Avtar Nagar, Basti Sheikh, Raja Garden Nagra among other areas.

Of the 17 new cases reported today, 14 are contacts of previous patients and three new cases. Another patient has been reported from outside the district. Those tested positive also includes a health worker from PIMS, originally a resident of Amritsar.

With the steady rise in Jalandhar cases, the number of active cases in the district has risen to 323. While the addition of level-2 covid facilities in the district has also been mulled over, currently there are 63 active patients admitted to the Civil Hospital, Jalandhar; eight at Shahkot IMA centre and 56 have been kept in home isolation.

A whopping 195 patients are currently in the isolation centre at Meritorious School.

Dr TP Singh, district nodal officer for Covid, said: “The Civil Hospital at present is able to retain all Covid patients. We have received at least two Covid positive patients from PIMS as well. Level-2 Covid centres are being considered in urban CHCs to accommodate more patients.”

Notably, Jalandhar DC Ghanshyam Thori also visited PIMS some days ago to take stock of the situation.

Despite the 350-bed facility at the Jalandhar Civil Hospital, most of the well-to-do patients prefer going to the IMA facility at Shahkot for treatment.

12 test positive in Nawanshahr

As many as 12 positive cases were reported from Nawanshahr district on Sunday. These include nine persons who had returned from abroad and three had come from other states. Five people were also discharged from Nawanshahr on Sunday. Civil surgeon Rajendra Prasad said, of the 12 positive persons, nine have been kept under isolation at KC College, whereas a man who had come from Delhi and another who had come from Bihar had also been placed under isolation. There are 19 active cases in Nanwshahr district. So far 9,643 samples have been taken in the district, of which 9,010 were found negative. The total positive cases in the district are 142, while 22 cases are from outside the district. As many as 230 new samples were taken on Sunday and the results of 191 were awaited. TNS

3 new cases in Hoshiarpur

With three fresh cases, the total number of patients inflicted with the coronavirus disease has increased to 177 in the district. Civil Surgeon Jasvir Singh said the positive patients were: 30-year-old woman of Tanda Ram Sahay village under the Budabar Health Centre; 40-year-old woman of Dalwali village under the Hajipur Health Centre; and the third patient was from Mohalla Vijay Nagar. He had come from Panipat.

2 new cases in Phagwara

An employee of the Police Saanjh Kendra and a girl computer operator deputed with the Phagwara Police tested positive for Covid-19 here on Saturday. With the two cases, the number of cops inflicted with the disease has risen to 10 so far.