Baltana woman among 6 contract virus in Mohali

Mohali, June 26

Six fresh cases of Covid have been reported from the district, raising the tally to 242.

Those who have contracted the virus include a 29-year-old woman from Baltana. Five persons from Behda village have also tested positive for Covid. They are two 18-year-old girls, a 19-year-old girl and two women, aged 25 and 34.

The Civil Surgeon, Dr Manjit Singh, said the Baltana woman was a research scholar at the PGI, Chandigarh, while the Behda village patients were migrants from Uttar Pradesh, who were working at a meat unit in the village.

He said the Baltana resident was admitted to the PGI and the other five patients to the Covid care centre at Gian Sagar Hospital in Banur.

Seven beat virus, discharged

The Civil Surgeon said seven patients had been cured of the disease and discharged from the Banur hospital. He said they were three women, aged 25, 55 and 75, and as many men, aged 27, 25 and 35. He said they all were residents of Mubarakpur in Dera Bassi. He added that the seventh patient to defeat the virus was a 25-year-old man from Lalru.

Part of Sector 91 sealed

The Civil Surgeon said the area in Sector 91, Mohali, had been sealed from where four patients were reported positive for Covid.