Chandigarh reports 3 new cases from Sector 25, tally 368

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 17

Three more positive cases from Sector 25 were reported on Wednesday. They were family contacts of a positive case reported on Tuesday.

Eight more cases of Covid were reported from the city today, taking the tally to 368.

On Tuesday, two fresh cases surfaced in Sector 41, three were reported from Khuda Ali Sher and one each from Sector 25, Bapu Dham Colony and Ram Darbar.

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A 35-year-old man, a resident of Sector 25, is among the new cases reported today. He works at an office of the Punjab Government in Sector 35. He had last attended the office on June 4. The patient has 18 workplace contacts and seven of them belong to the city. His four family members have been sampled for Covid while 10 community contacts are currently asymptomatic.

Two women from Sector 41, aged 22 and 54, who are family contacts of a Covid case of Delhi, have also tested positive for the virus.

Three new patients are from Khuda Ali Sher — a 74-year-old man, a 55-year-old woman and a two-year-old boy.

They are family contacts of an infected person who had returned from Uttar Pradesh.

A 12-year-old boy from Bapu Dham Colony, who is a family contact of a Covid patient, has also contracted the virus.

A 58-year-old man from Ram Darbar has also tested positive for Covid. He is a workplace contact of four cases in Punjab. They work at a private factory in Dera Bassi. He has two family contacts, who are asymptomatic, besides 23 community contacts.

Meanwhile, an 80-year-old woman from Bapu Dham Colony was discharged from the PGI today. She has been shifted to Sood Dharamshala, a post-discharge quarantine facility. — TNS

Five test positive in Panchkula

Panchkula: Five Covid cases were reported from the district on Tuesday. Three of them are from Delhi and one from Lucknow. A female resident of Panchkula, who had returned from Rajpura, has tested positive. TNS

Four more infected in Mohali

Mohali: Four more Covid cases surfaced in the district on Tuesday. A 43-year-old man from Sante Majra, a 70-year-old man from Baltana, a 22-year-old youth from Sector 127 in Kharar and a 44-year-old man from Phase X have contracted the virus. Civil Surgeon Manjit Singh said the Sante Majra man had a travel history to Gurugram, the Phase X resident had returned from Delhi and the youth from Ahmedabad. Meanwhile, a 31-year-old man and a 57-year-old woman recovered from Covid on Tuesday and were discharged from the Banur hospital. TNS