Five of Dhanas family among 7 fresh cases in Chandigarh

The remaining two cases are from Sectors 20 and 21, which took the city’s tally to 466

Five members of a family in Dhanas, including a toddler, were among seven people who tested positive for Covid-19 in Chandigarh on Sunday.

The remaining two cases are from Sectors 20 and 21, which took the city’s tally to 466. As many as 65 cases are still active.

In Sector 20, a 26-year-old woman, who is a workplace contact of a patient from Mohali, has tested positive. Her husband’s samples have also been taken. In Sector 21, a 58-year-old man was found infected. His seven family contacts have been quarantined.

In Dhanas, the patients include three men, aged 20, 22 and 26, a woman, aged 20, and a one-and-a-half-year-old boy. They are family contacts of a patient from the same locality. A part of Dhanas — Kachhi Colony — remained a containment zone between May 21 and June 8. It had reported its first case on May 5.

7 more edu dept staffers +ve, not added to tally yet

A day after two women staffers of the Chandigarh education department tested positive and their 23 co-workers were quarantined, seven more employees have reportedly been found infected on Sunday.

However, the numbers have not been added to any tally yet, even as multiple sources confirmed the development. While four are Chandigarh residents, two are from Mohali and one from Panchkula, said sources.

A 48-year-old male doctor of Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, is also reported to have tested positive. He resides in the same sector and is a contact of health worker who tested positive earlier, said sources.

Meanwhile, the offices of directors, higher education and school education, Chandigarh, were closed on Sunday “till further orders”, after “few suspected Covid-19 cases in the department of education”. “The office rooms/branches on the first floor of the additional deluxe building in Sector 9 will remain closed,” states the order. UT director of higher education Rubinderjit Singh Brar said: “Rest of the department will work with limited staff.”