10 new coronavirus cases in a day take Punjab tally to 238

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, April 19

With 10 more cases — six from Jalandhar and four from SAS Nagar district —  being reported on Sunday, the total number of coronavirus patients in Punjab has gone up to 244. 

An infant and a senior citizen were among Mohali’s four new coronavirus cases, all relatives of an employee at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research who recently tested positive.

The 26-year-old wife of the PGI employee and his month-old, a 60-year-old woman and a 19-year-old man all tested positive on Sunday, officials said.  

They are all residents of Nayagaon. The employee, a sanitation worker, was among two people on PGI’s payroll to be diagnosed with the infection recently.

His wife and daughter have been admitted to PGI, while the other two are currently at Gian Sagar Hospital.

The development takes Mohali’s tally to 61, with 53 active cases and two deaths.

Punjab has reported 16 deaths

Mohali is the district with the highest number of cases in Punjab and two reported deaths.

Punjab government has since identified 17 hotspots in the state—Mohali being the first in the list—to ramp its containment strategy. The state also imposed a curfew until May 3.

The central government meanwhile named four districts in the state—Mohali, SBS Nagar, Jalandhar and Pathankot—among 170 read zones in the country.

Meanwhile, seven people tested negative in Muktsar. The district has only one case so far—an 18-year-old resident of Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut who had come to a local mosque on March 18 after attending last month’s Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Delhi tested positive on April 8.

He is currently being treated at a local hospital.