Two more fatalities due to Covid-19 in Mohali; 67 fresh cases surface

Tribune News Service

Mohali, August 11

Two more fatalities were witnessed taking the total count to 23 in the Mohali district on Tuesday. Both the patients with co-morbidities had tested positive.

The deceased have been identified as 28-year-female, a resident of Sunny Enclave in Kharar who was suffering from multiple co-morbidity had died at the PGI Chandigarh. The second patient is a 62-year-male, a resident of village Manakpur and was suffering from comorbidity.

Dr Harmandeep Kaur, District Epidemiologist and Nodal Officer, said that 28-year- old patient had damaged heart, kidneys and lungs and was under treatment at the PGI while the 62-year-male was suffering from diabetes and hypertension and was under treatment at Ivy Hospital.

Health of both the patients, who had tested positive of the virus, was deteriorating from the last couple of days.

Meanwhile, the persons infected with the virus include two males and three females from Baltana, six males and two females from Padiala village, two females and a male from Bhabat, five males and four females from Kharar, 17 males and five males from various parts of Mohali city, two females and a male from Bhabat, one male and a female from Sohana, three males from Dhakoli, one male and one female from Aerocity, one male and a female from Baltana.

The other areas from where the patients were found positive of the virus include Jangpur, Balongi, Jujhar Nagar, Zirakpur , village Nada, Derabassi, Nayagaon, Bairmajra, Lohgarh, and Kurali.

Twenty-five patients have been cured and discharged from hospital.

As of now there are 1,452 positive patients and out of these 740 have been cured. There are 689 active cases with 23 deaths in the district.