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Four, including 2-year-old girl, test positive in Himachal, count now 48
With this, the number of active cases in the state stand at ten, and 34 patients have recovered and were discharged.
Four more people tested positive for Covid-19 in Himachal Pradesh on Friday, taking the total number of cases in the state to 50.
The fresh cases include a 41-year-old man from Hamirpur, another from Shahpur of Kangra, a two-year-old girl from Salooni sub-division of Chamba district and a woman from Una.
With this, the number of active cases in the state stand at ten, and 34 patients have recovered and were discharged.
The Hamirpur patient is a resident of Bijhari in Barsar sub-division and had returned from Delhi on April 29. He developed flu-like symptoms and tested positive for Covid-19 after his samples were sent to the Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (IHBT), Palampur, additional chief secretary, health, RD Dhiman said.
The patient was shifted to the Charitable Hospital at Bhota, a designated Covid-19 treatment facility in Hamirpur.
The two-year-old patient had come in contact with her father, who returned from Baddi on April 30 and tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday.
She is being shifted to a Covid treatment facility, Dhiman said.
The 25-year-old patient from Kangra, worked as a courier boy in Delhi and returned home on April 28 with two others. The fourth patient, a 30-year-old woman hailing from Amb sub-division of Una, had returned to the state two days ago with her family. They were quarantined in an institutional facility at Mehatpur inter-state border.
Himachal Pradesh has seen a rise in ten cases, including a fatality, in the past five days.
A youngster from Jogindernagar of Mandi district, who had returned from Delhi on April 29, tested positive for Covid-19 on Sunday. Next, a 21-year-old man from Sarkaghat in Mandi who had also travelled back from Delhi after undergoing treatment for a kidney ailment, died of the contagion at Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla. His mother tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday.
On Wednesday, three cases, one from Kangra and two from Chamba district, were reported in the state.
The Kangra patient had returned from Delhi on April 27, while those from Chamba had a travel history to Baddi.
Una is the worst affected district in Himachal Pradesh with total of 17 cases followed by nine each in Solan and Chamba. Seven cases have been reported in Kangra, three in Hamirpur, two each in Sirmaur and Mandi and one in Shimla.
