116 test +ve in a day at Muktsar village

Archit Watts

Tribune News Service

Muktsar, May 17

Setting the alarm bells ringing, 116 persons tested positive for Covid at Bhundar village in Muktsar district today, taking the village caseload to 178. Unfortunately, some children, including a month-old baby, too, have tested positive.

District Magistrate MK Aravind Kumar has declared the village a macro-containment zone. The village has a population of 4,000 persons, of whom nearly 700 have undergone the test and some reports are pending. Asked whether farmers returning from the Delhi protest are being tested positive, Dr Ranju Singla, Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Muktsar, said: “We have not got any such data.”

Meanwhile, Sahib Singh Bhundar, chairman, Cooperative Bank, Muktsar, a resident of the village, said, “The reports of nearly 170 are pending. A high number of positive cases has worried all of us. We have now decided to paste the Covid status of all outside their houses.” “The village doesn’t have any healthcare facility. Four health workers, who visited the village daily, have also tested positive. Two village residents succumbed to the virus yesterday,” he said.

Bhundar sarpanch Sukhdev Singh said: “The police have already sealed the village. Residents are cooperating with the police and civil administration. The District Magistrate declared Kuraiwala village, too, a macro containment zone after 22 residents tested positive. In the past 24 hours, 619 persons, including 400 villagers, have tested positive for Covid in the district.