9 test +ve in Panchkula, all with travel history

Tribune News Service
Panchkula, June 9

Nine fresh cases of Covid were reported from the district today. All have a travel history. Four of these were from Kalka, but will not be added to the district tally as the patients had arrived from Mumbai and would be counted there.

A 31-year-old man, his wife (30) and their two children, aged 6 and 7, had reached Marranwala village in Kalka from Mumbai and have tested positive for Covid.

Three members of a family of Sector 21 too have contracted the virus. They are a 53-year-old man, his wife (48) and their 23-year-old son. They had travelled to a village near Kala Amb in Himachal Pradesh to enquire about a relative, who had tested positive for Covid earlier.

A 28-year-old youth from Sector 6, who had recently returned from Delhi where he was doing a job, has contracted the virus.

A 40-year-old man from Sector 17, who had recently returned by air from Hyderabad, has been found infected. Even as health teams were taking him in an ambulance, some persons, including women, were seen entering the corner house from a side gate. The patient’s father was seen carrying a bottle of liquor, which he reportedly received from a neighbourhood shop.

Civil Surgeon Jasjit Kaur said the area had been turned into a containment zone and nobody was allowed to enter the house. If the people had entered the house, they would look into the matter.

The Civil Surgeon said all new patients had been admitted to the isolation ward of the Civil Hospital in Sector 6. The family members of these patients had also been home-quarantined. She said the teams had started tracing the contacts of these patients so as to isolate them and take their samples.