With seven new cases, Mohali has highest coronavirus positive cases in Punjab

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 7

Seven more people tested positive for coronavirus in Mohali district on Tuesday, officials said. The total number of positive cases in the district now stands at 26.

The cases have surfaced in Jawaharpur village of the Dera Bassi block. 

Deputy Commissioner, Girish Dayalan, said that a total of 7 people from the two families—including the present panch, who was tested positive, and the present sarpanch of Jawaharpur village—have tested positive.

All the people are between 12 and 50 years of age, he added.

Deputy Commissioner, along with the civil surgeon, has rushed to the village. The authorities are likely to put the village under a state of emergency.

The affected members of the families were involved in distributing community food to the poor, needy and the labourers.

Mohali saw four new coronavirus cases in one day.  

Meanwhile, two days after 42-year-old panch of Jawaharpur village was tested positive for COVID-19, his 67-year-old father, his 38-year-old brother, and his 43-year-old wife also tested positive. 

All of them have been admitted at Gian Sagar Hospital in Banur.

According to sources, the present panch of the village came in contact with a Muslim foreman, who had travelled from Delhi to meet him on March 31.  

He said that he had attended the Tabligh-e-Jamaat congregation. The foreman stayed in the village for a couple of days, before heading back to Delhi. The panch owns a tent-house where five to six Muslim labourers work.

Presently, Mohali has the highest COVID-19 positive cases in Punjab.

Earlier, it was Nawanshahar with 19 cases. Till now, Mohali has reported one death and four have been cured.