Two sanitation workers at PGI test positive for coronavirus

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, April 17

Two sanitation workers employed at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research tested positive for coronavirus on Friday, officials said.

 One was a 30-year-old resident of Nayagaon. District authorities have begun collecting swab samples of the patient’s contacts.

The second is believed to be a resident of Dhanas. Both cases were detected through random testing conducted in the hospital.

Eleven healthcare workers have been quarantined, officials said.

Dr Ashok, spokesperson of PGIMER, said: “Both of the employees are asymptomatic as of now. We are going to investigate the source of infection. They were going to their homes after duty. They have been found positive in the random testing. We tested a few employees whose duty hours were done”.

The development takes the total number of cases in Chandigarh to 22 and Mohali to 57.

Meanwhile, a 30-year-old resident of sector 21 who had come in contact with contact with the city’s first coronavirus case---a student who returned from UK---was released from PGIMER on Friday. This takes the total number of active cases in the city is 11.