Coronavirus: Haryana reports 7 new cases from Faridabad, Jhajjar, Ambala

Tribune News Service
Jhajjar, April 27

Haryana on Monday reported seven more COVID-19 cases from Jhajjar (5), Faridabad (1) and Ambala (1) districts.

Jhajjar district, which had so far been safe from the COVID-19 pandemic, reported five cases of COVID on Monday, putting the district health authorities on its toes.

A 30-year-old commission agent, hailing from Lal Khania locality in Jhajjar tested positive. He used to bring vegetables/fruits from Azadpur Market in Delhi to the Jhajjar vegetable market. His sample, along with other commission agents and vegetable vendors, was taken two days ago during the random sampling.

A resident of Vivekanand Colony in Bahadurgarh has tested COVID positive. He is employed with the Health Department of the Delhi government and used to travel from Bahadurgarh to his workplace in Delhi daily. 

The three other COVID cases are close contacts of a Covid positive Delhi cop hailing from Sulodha village in Jhajjar district.

Faridabad reported one more positive case on Monday morning, taking the district's tally to 46. A 50-year-old CEO of a health institute in New Delhi, a resident of sector 28 here, tested positive for COVID-19. Four members of his family have been quarantined and isolated. He reported a fever four days ago. He has been admitted to the ESI hospital in Faridabad.

Another positive case takes Ambala tally to 14

A 66-year-old woman in Ambala tested positive for COVID on Monday, taking the district tally to 14, an official of the district health department said.

The patient was, for the past 15 years, undergoing kidney treatment and dialysis at PGIMER in Chandigarh, where she tested positive this morning. The district health and police personnel rushed to the area and sealed it before collecting samples of the patient's contacts.