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63 more Covid cases take Punjab tally to 1,766
Eighteen fresh cases, with 10 of them having Nanded link, were detected in SBS Nagar
Sixty-three more persons, including 47 who returned from Takht Hazur Sahib in Maharashtra’s Nanded recently, tested positive for the coronavirus on Friday, taking the state’s tally of those infected by the disease to 1,766.
Eighteen fresh cases, with 10 of them having Nanded link, were detected in SBS Nagar. The district now has a total of 103 positive cases. The pilgrims, including three women, are aged between 29 and 54. The rest are migrants in the age group of 19 and 40.
In Jalandhar, 7 persons, including three Ganna Chak village women residents who returned from Nanded, tested positive on Friday, with the district so far witnessing 155 cases, including 5 deaths.
One of those infected is a 4-year-old boy of Basti Guzzan in Jalandhar city, who is a close contact of 48-year-old Sehdev, who died due to Covid-19.
12 cases in Amritsar, four in Tarn Taran
Twelve more people, who returned from Nanded, were tested positive in Amritsar on Friday. “One of the patients is admitted in Patiala. The number of total patients in Amritsar is 286 of which 267 are Nanded-returnees,” civil surgeon Dr Jugal Kishore said.
Also, four more Nanded-returnees were tested positive in Tarn Taran, taking the district’s total to 161.
In Gurdaspur, 8 cases with Nanded link were detected. The district now has 117 cases, including 107 Hazur Sahib-returnees, so far.
In Kapurthala district’s Phagwara sub-division, five pilgrims, including a teenager and a 66-year-old woman, tested positive for Covid-19. Others are three men aged 50, 66 and 67. All of them were in quarantine.
So far, the district has recorded a total of 23 cases, including two deaths.
2 found infected in Sangrur
Two fresh cases were reported in Sangrur. The district’s count now is 97.
Civil surgeon Dr Raj Kumar said the patients are a 56-year-old woman, who returned from Nanded while the other, a 25-year-old, was a contact of a Covid-19 victim.
2 cases in Bathinda, one in Mansa
Two persons, including a Rajasthan-returned labourer and a 70-year-old woman from Udham Singh Nagar, tested positive in Bathinda district while an 18-year-old youth was found infected in Mansa district.
In Bathinda now there are a total 41 Covid-19 patients while Mansa has 15 active cases of five have got cured. The infected woman was shifted to the isolation ward of a hospital. The administration has sealed two streets of her locality.
Civil surgeon Dr Amrik Singh said samples of 18 of her contacts were collected.
The 18-year-old Mansa boy came back to his native village Burj Rathi from Gurugram in Haryana. He is second resident of the village to be found positive for the disease.
Patiala crosses 100-mark
Patiala district on Friday crossed the mark of 100-positive cases with two fresh cases of coronavirus. A 50-year-old Hazur Sahib-returnee, who earlier tested negative, has now contracted infection after he showed symptoms of virus at a quarantine centre. Also, a 22-year-old woman, a contact of an earlier infected woman from Rajpura’s Gulab nagar area, also tested positive.
Of a total of 101 cases in the district, 47 have been reported from Rajpura town.
Also, the reports of two Hazur Sahib-returnees were found positive in
Pathankot. Deputy commissioner GS Khaira said 21 prilgrims reached the district from Nanded Sahib and all were quarantined at the Chintpurni Medical College.
Besides, a 28- year- old man from Machhiwara locality of Ludhiana was tested positive.
(Inputs from Jalandhar, Bathinda, Ludhiana, Patiala and Sangrur)
