18 more RPF jawans test positive for Covid-19 in Ludhiana

Tribune News Service

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Chandigarh, May 14

In all, 18 more jawans of the Railway Protection Force (RPF) tested positive for Covid-19 in Ludhiana on Thursday. Earlier, 16 had contracted the virus.

Now, of the 79 jawans in the battalion, 34 are Covid-positive and in isolation. The rest have been placed under quarantine.

The Delhi-based battalion was deployed in Ludhiana for the smooth flow of trains as migrants in huge number are being sent back home.

These cases were reported after the media bulletin was released. As per the bulletin, 11 more cases were reported on Thursday, taking the total count in the state to 1,935.

Of the 11 cases, seven cases were reported from Jalandhar, three from Ludhiana and one from Patiala.

Besides, 23 patients were discharged. With this, the total number of patients who have recovered from the virus has reached 223.

Of the seven new cases in Jalandhar, two are medical professionals — a 48-year-old doctor of Virdi Colony and a 29-year-old nurse from Shankar Garden. Both of them are contacts of a private doctor, who has tested positive for Covid-19.

The third case is of a 28-year-old man from Baba Ishar Singh Nagar. The remaining four cases in Jalandhar were reported from Qazi Mohalla. One of them is a 27-year-old woman; the age of the other three is more than 50 years.

A new case was also reported from Ropar on Thursday. A 33-year-old resident of the district’s Mahain village tested positive. He returned from Himachal Pradesh recently, following which he was home quarantined.

With this, the total number of Covid-19 patients in the district has reached 58.

Ropar DC Sonali Giri said of the 1,235 samples collected in the district so far, 860 were found negative while the reports of 309 were awaited.

Two residents of the district’s Chatamali village had recovered last month.

As per the Health Department, samples of 47,048 suspected cases have been sent for testing so far. Of them, 42,425 samples were found negative and reports of 3,048 are awaited.

Meanwhile, of the 23 patients, two were from Sangrur. As a farewell gift, doctors and staff members gave them saplings.

One of them, a 72-year-old man, tested positive after he returned from Hazur Sahib, Nanded. The other person, aged 34 years, returned from Kaithal with a combine harvester.

“The two men were admitted to the Covid care centre in Ghabdan on May 5. They were discharged after they tested negative twice,” DC Ghanshyam Thori said.