Jalandhar includes 16 new coronavirus cases, district’s tally cross 100-mark

Aparna Banerji
Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, May 1

Jalandhar reported 16 new coronavirus cases on Friday, taking the district’s tally to 105—the first district to breach the three-figure mark in the state.

Six of the new cases were contacts of the city Mayor’s OSD who was diagnosed with the infection last month.

Two men, ages 50 and 43, from Jalandhar Cantt, a 59-year-old man from Guru Amardass Nagar, a 50-year-old man from Baldev Nagar, a 46-year-old male from Indira Colony and a 45-year-old woman from Urban Estate, Phase 2, all tested positive.

One person—a 58-year-old woman from Rampur village in Noormahal–had recently returned from Gurdwara Hazur Sahib in Maharashtra’s Nanded. A 32-year-old man who is a resident of Rama Mandi took a recent trip to Rajasthan.

 Two of those–a 47-year-old man from Lamma Pind and a 26-year-old man from Garha’s Army Enclave, Garha—who tested positive were contacts of previously diagnosed patients.

Six of the 10 were new cases, meaning that none of their contacts had previously tested positive.

The others who were diagnosed with the virus were a 55-year-old woman from Basti Sheikh, a 19-year-old woman from Gujjarpal Nagar, 21 year-old woman who lives near DAV College, a 15-year-old man from Sangal Sohal village, a 25-year-old male resident of Wadala Chowk and a 60 year-old woman from Model Town.

Meanwhile, the list of containment zones in the district continues to swell. Twenty-seven urban pockets and four rural areas of the district are already containment zones.

This is the first time Model Town, Nurmahal in Rampur, Sangal Sohal village, Dhina village in Indira Colony, Wadala Chowk, Baldev Nagar have reported cases.

Friday’s development means that district authorities would expand their containment zones to include these new areas.

The central government named Jalandhar among Punjab’s three red-zone areas for coronavirus. The other two red-zone areas in the state are Ludhiana and Patiala.