Student tests positive for coronavirus in Punjab, LPU hostel sealed

Ashok Kaura
Phagwara, April 12

After a Lovely Professional University Student was tested positive the Health and Police Administration have launched a large scale drive to trace the people who came in contact with the patient.

The Bachelor of Physiotherapy student is identified as Neeti Chauhan. She hails from West Mumbai.

Deputy Commissioner Deepti Uppal told, this correspondent, on Sunday, that the police have sealed the campus of LPU and nobody will be allowed to move out till the medical examination is complete, that includes 3,200 people—1,700 students and 1,500 staff memebers. 

Deputy Commissioner told medical teams led by SMO Phagwara, Dr Kamal Kishore and SMO Panchhat, Dr Kanta have been sent to the campus.

The teams that are led by Corona Specialist Dr Sukhwinderpal Singh and Nodal Officer Dr Naresh Kundra are examining the patients.

Around 7,00 people were examined till late Saturday night. 

It is the first positive case in Phagwara.

No travel history of the patient came to light.

She was a resident of Durga Mata Chawl, behind Noorani Maszid Gandhi Nagar, in West Mumbai and was residing in LPU for more than two months.

When contacted Deputy Commissioner Kapurthala Deepti Uppal it was confirmed that the girl who was tested on Friday and has been sent to the Kapurthala Hospital to be kept in isolation.

It was learnt that 63 students are residing in hostel no 5, while around 110 girls are residing in adjoining hostel no G6.

Both hostels have a common mess with 39 workers and two wardens. All are under quarantined now.

Meanwhile, 22 Cops and 25 employees of the civil administration were medically examined in Phagwara on Saturday.