Four children among 54 fresh cases in Punjab

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 11

Following a spike in Covid-19 cases in the first week of this month, the number of new patients has started declining. With 54 fresh cases coming to the fore on Monday, the state count touched 1,877.

As per the media bulletin, Jalandhar topped the chart with 13 new cases, followed by Mansa (12), Fatehgarh Sahib (11), Gurdaspur (six), Moga and Ludhiana (two each), and Tarn Taran, Fazilka, Patiala, Faridkot, Ropar, Hoshiarpur, Amritsar and Ferozepur (one each).

The tally in Jalandhar district has risen to 188. With the death of 91-year-old Jandu Singh, a patient at the CMC today, the death toll in the district has gone up to six. Of the 13 new patients reported today, 12 are from Qazi Mohalla and one (a 17-year-old boy) from the old vegetable market area. The 12 patients from Qazi Mohalla include four children aged between one and nine. All of them are contacts of a patient who tested positive a few days ago.

Notably, the same man is the source of infection for a doctor of Guru Nanak Mission Hospital, four health workers of Kidney Hospital and nine persons who tested positive today at Qazi Mohalla. He had reportedly visited both hospitals.

In Fazilka’s Azeemgarh area, health workers on Monday launched a door-to-door survey as a 25-year-old returnee from Gurugram tested positive. The patient, who was employed in a company in Gurugram, was ferried back by his brother on May 5 and quarantined at the civil hospital here. He was shifted to an isolation ward in Jalalabad.