3 fresh cases take Chandigarh count to 423

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 25

Three new Covid-19 cases were reported from Ram Darbar today, taking the city count to 423. The number of active cases is 88.

The three — a 32-year-old woman, a seven-year-old boy and a four-year-old girl — are family contacts of an already positive person.

Besides, six community contacts of a Sector 29 positive patient have been home-quarantined in Chandigarh. Officials said her PU contacts were asymptomatic and they were not “in her direct contact”.

Similarly, 21 contacts of a Sector 22 positive person have been home-quarantined. His five family members have been tested for the virus.

Seven cured, discharged

Seven patients — five from Sector 25 and one each from Sector 26 and Ram Darbar — were discharged on Thursday.

Four new cases surface in Panchkula

Panchkula: Four new Covid cases were reported from Panchkula on Thursday. Those infected are a 30-year-old woman and her 10-year-old daughter from Chandimandir, a 29-year-old man from a residential society in Sector 20 and a 30-year-old man from Kot village in Barwala block. “The mother-daughter duo had a travel history to Delhi,” said the Civil Surgeon, Dr Jasjeet Kaur. She said the infected person from Barwala had a travel history to Gorakhpur in UP. The Sector 20 resident is a contact of an already infected person in Mohali, where he works. Except the Barwala patient, who was shifted to BRS Dental College, the other three patients are receiving treatment at the Civil Hospital in Sector 6. TNS