E-Paper
Chandigarh reports five new Covid-19 cases; PGIMER quarantines 32 staffers
Seventeen doctors, 11 nursing officers, two operation theatre technicians, two hospital cleaners quarantined after coming in contact with a critical 42-year-old woman from Punjab’s Kapurthala
Five women tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Chandigarh on Wednesday, taking the Union Territory’s Covid-19 count to 370. As many 58 of these cases are active.
Three women, aged 26, 30 and 54, have tested positive in Sector 25. They are family contacts of a 35-year-old employee of the Punjab Municipal Infrastructure Development Company, who was one of the eight people to test positive for the infection on Tuesday.
Two other women, aged 25 and 48, are from Ram Darbar. They, too, are family contacts of a positive case.
Meanwhile, three residents of Bapu Dham Colony, Sector 26, and one of Daria were discharged on Wednesday and moved to a quarantine facility. As many as 306 people have recovered while six have succumbed so far.
PGIMER STAFFERS QUARANTINED
As many as 32 “high-risk” healthcare workers, including 17 doctors, at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research Chandigarh have been quarantined after they were exposed to a Covid-19 positive patient.
In all, 71 staffers were contact traced after a 42-year-old woman from Punjab’s Kapurthala, who was admitted in a critical condition upon furnishing a negative Covid-19 test report on June 12, tested positive on June 15.
All high-risk contacts are quarantined for 14 days from the last day of exposure and they will be tested between the seventh and tenth day of quarantine, stated an official statement.
