No let-up in Covid cases, 23 more test positive in Ludhiana

Manav Mander

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, June 13

The district Covid tally continues to swell with 23 persons testing positive today. They include five patients with travel history.

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A 31-year-old patient from Amarpura had travelled to Mumbai. A 34-year-old man and 13-year-old boy from C Block of Raj Nagar, who had a travel history of Delhi, also tested positive. Similarly, two patients from Ranjit Singh Park here also had a travel history of Delhi.

Two residents from Giaspura, who had recently visited Rohtak, are among positive cases reported today.

The others who tested positive are residents of Dashmesh Nagar, Division Number 3, Giaspura, main market of Sherpur, New Model Town, Chandigarh Road, Mayur Vihar, Mohar Singh Nagar and Bhadurke, Bhattiyan.

So far, 31 positive cases have been reported from the containment zone comprising Islam Gunj, Sensi Mohalla and Habib Ganj. A total of 28 have been reported from another containment zone, Chowni Mohalla.

Rules given the go-by in containment zone

Meanwhile, in the newly declared containment zone comprising Islam Ganj, Habib Ganj and Sensi Mohalla, residents were seen roaming around. There was negligible deployment of policemen.

At Habib Gunj, residents were chitchatting outside their houses without maintaining social distance. “We are not going anywhere. Sitting outside houses is allowed,” said one of them.

Many residents were not wearing face masks. Though barricading was done by the police, there was no one to stop residents from crossing it. People were coming in and going out of the containment zone without any restriction.

According to Surinder Kumar, a resident, a police vehicle patrols the area around 7 pm and that is the time when people rush into their houses, otherwise life is normal as usual here.

Meanwhile, the report of a city resident who died on June 10 at the GMCH-32, Chandigarh, has come positive. With her death, the count of Covid fatalities in Ludhiana district has gone to 11.

The deceased was a resident of Amarpura. The members of her family have been kept in isolation.

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