Woman staying near Raj Bhawan among 87 fresh COVID-19 cases in HP

Tribune News Service
Shimla/Dharamsala/Sirmaur, July 26

Himachal Pradesh reported 87 fresh COVID-19 cases, including that of a woman residing near Raj Bhawan here on Sunday, taking the state’s tally to 2,137, officials said.

Forty-one of the fresh cases were reported from Solan, 14 from Kangra, 11 from Shimla, 10 from Sirmaur, seven from Mandi, three from Una and one from Bilaspur, Additional Chief Secretary (Health) R D Dhiman said.

Among the fresh cases include that of a woman residing in Barnes’ Court Stokes Place located near Raj Bhawan falling under Benmore ward.

The block number 9 in Barnes’ Court Stokes Place has been sealed after sanitising the area, Benmore municipal councillor Kimi Sood said.

The basic amenities of the people living in the sealed area will be looked after, she said, adding that they can call her or the Chotta Shimla police station for that if required.

Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) urban Manjeet Sharma along with his team also visited the area, she added.

Sirmaur district of Himachal Pradesh reported 10 more cases of coronavirus, taking the total number of cases in the district to 236.

DC Sirmaur, Dr RK Pruthi, said out of the ten cases, six were reported from Govindgarh Mohalla in Nahan. Five women, in the age group of 14 to 55 years, and a man, aged 30, tested positive for the contagion.

The four others cases were reported from Paonta Sahib and comprise three men, aged 18, 19 and 35, and a woman, aged 32. They are workers at valley Iron Steel industrial unit. 

All of them have been shifted to Covid care centres.

Pruthi said 27 teams of health workers were undertaking active case finding in Nahan town and another six at Dadahu town. They will visit each house and ascertain whether the residents had come in contact with the 154 people who have tested positive from Govindgarh Mohalla so far.

Six armymen test positive in Kangra

Kangra reported 14 more coronavirus cases, among them six armymen.

A 25-year-old army man tested positive at an Army quarantine centre in Yol; two residents of Nehran Pukher near Dehra who recently came back to the state from Sikkim via Delhi and have since been institutional quarantine in Dhaliara; a 31-year-old from Har near village Dehra who recently came back from Leh; a 34-year-old from Maned village near Dharamsala who recently came from Noida and a 35-year-old who recently travelled back from Ahmednagar in Maharashtra

Besides these, a 32-year-old woman; her 9 year-old son; 6-year-old daughter; and 27-year-old brother-in-law, all from Kangra’s Kulthi village, and a 40-year-old man from Nurpur who travelled to Pathankot about 10 days ago for business also tested positive.

COVID-19 has so far claimed 13 lives in the state, while 1,178 people have recovered and 15 migrated out of the state.

The deaths include that of a Delhi resident 70-year-old woman, who had been staying at a factory’s guest house in Himachal Pradesh’s Baddi since March 15, she died in PGIMER Chandigarh on April 2.

Five more patients in Kangra recovered from the infection in the last 24 hours, Dhiman said.

About 43 per cent of the state’s cases---929---are still active.

Solan has the highest number of active cases in the state at 366, followed by 188 in Sirmaur, 88 in Kangra, 78 in Shimla, 67 in Mandi, 51 in Una, 24 in Chamba, 18 in Bilaspur, 17 each in Hamirpur and Kinnaur and 15 in Kullu. With PTI