27 migrant workers from Chhattisgarh among Solan’s 41 new cases

Tribune News Service
Solan, July 26

Twenty-seven construction workers from Chhattisgarh were among 41 new coronavirus cases found in Nalagarh sub-division---a development that takes Solan’s tally to 548.

Solan’s Medical Officer Dr NK Gupta said the migrant workers were employed with VK Mangla Construction Company in Baddi. They were still under isolation when the tested positive and had not yet joined worked.

Barotiwala Police had previously booked the construction company’s contractor under sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Epidemic Disease Act for having illegally brought back the migrants by bus on July 13. The migrants had allegedly been made to stay in the huts near an indoor stadium at Baddi in violation of rules.

Besides them, five are from Nalagarh’s ward number 7 and were contacts of an older case.  Two other people in institutional quarantine in Baddi’s Thana village and one kept in quarantine at a hotel in Baddi also tested positive.

Of the rest, four from Bhatolikalan, Baddi, Shiwalik Nagar at Jharmajri and Haripur Sandholi villages underwent a test after they had flu-like symptoms. The last two cases, from Billanwali village and Phase III Housing Board Colony at Baddi, were direct contacts of an older case.

Two other from Billanwali village and phase III housing board colony at Baddi are the direct contacts of an earlier positive patient.

Solan has the highest number of coronavirus cases of  any district in Himachal---accounting for just over 25 per cent of the state’s 2,137 infections.