Himachal Pradesh’s tally crossed the 200-mark after twenty-six more people tested positive for Covid-19 late on Sunday and Monday.
Eight cases were reported from Kangra, six from Una four each from Chamba and Shimla, three from Bilaspur and one from Hamirpur.
The state tally has touched 223, of which 151 are active cases said special secretary (health) Nipun Jindal.
HOME GUARD TESTS POSITIVE
A home guard, on-field duty, was among the six people who tested positive in Una late on Sunday, taking the state’s tally past 200. His source of infection is being traced.
Una deputy commissioner Sandeep Kumar said three of the Covid-19 patients had travelled from Mumbai and two from Delhi.
TWENTY CASES TODAY
Meanwhile, twenty more cases were reported in Kangra, Chamba, Shimla, Bilaspur and Hamirpur on Monday.
Eight people were tested positive in Kangra.
Two returned from Ahemdabad and four from Maharashtra. All of them were in institutional quarantine, said Kangra Deputy Commissioner Rakesh Kumar Prajapati.
Late evening a 28-year-old mother and her seven-month-old son were tested positive in Jawali subdivision of Kangra. They returned from Delhi recently.
Four people from Tissa subdivision of Chamba district, who travelled from Chennai, were also tested positive in the afternoon.
{{/usCountry}}Four people from Tissa subdivision of Chamba district, who travelled from Chennai, were also tested positive in the afternoon.
{{/usCountry}}Four people from Chopal and Theog subdivision of Shimla tested positive for Covid-19. They had returned from Mumbai on May 18 in a special train and were quarantined in an institutional facility at Deha in Theog tehsil.
Bilaspur district also recorded three cases. Two returned from Mumbai and travel history of the third is being traced, said Bilaspur deputy commissioner Rajeshwar Goel.
One 25-year-old woman from Barsar subdivision of Hamirpur district tested positive. She had travelled from Mumbai with her husband, who had tested positive on May 22.
CASES DOUBLE IN FIVE DAYS
The Covid-19 cases in Himachal have doubled in five days. Himachal had recorded its 100th case on May 20.
It took exactly two months two reach the 100-mark. The first case was reported on March 20. As many as 125 people have tested positive in the last five days.
Himachal Pradesh had witnessed the biggest single-day spike last Thursday with 42 people testing positive for the virus.
THE MAY SEES THE SPIKE
Himachal has witnessed a spurt in Covid-19 cases after May 4 with 183 people testing positive for the virus.
Hamirpur was the worst-hit district with 63 cases followed by Kangra with 59 cases.
Thirty cases have been reported in Una, 20 in Solan, 18 in Chamba, 11 each in Mandi and Bilaspur, six in Shimla, four in Sirmaur, and one in Kullu.
As many as 63 people have recovered.
51 MAHARASHTRA RETURNEES SYMPTOMATIC
Fifty-one people who returned to Kangra from Maharashtra on Sunday in a special train have influenza-like illness symptoms.
A total of 1,125 people stranded in Maharashtra and Gujarat arrived in two trains.
Preliminary health screening for the segregation of symptomatic persons was done at the Una railway station.