137 HAZUR SAHIB PILGRIMS IN PUNJAB’S FRIDAY TALLY OF 165
CHANDIGARH: Punjab on Friday reported 165 coronavirus positive cases, including 137 Hazur Sahib pilgrims, who were brought back from Nanded in Maharashtra over the last few days, taking the state’s tally to 709. A total of 314 Nanded-returnees have tested positive in the state so far. The maximum number of cases — 61 — are from Amritsar, including 60 Nandedreturnees, and a National Health Mission (NHM) worker, who was assigned the duty of transporting blood and throat swab samples of Nanded-returnees to Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Amritsar.
Patiala and Ferozepur districts reported 24 fresh cases each. All 24 infected people in Patiala and 18 in Ferozepur came back from Hazur Sahib recently.
Patiala civil surgeon Dr Harish Malhotra said all the positive case are asymptomatic.
PATIALA/FEROZEPUR/AMRITSAR/JALANDHAR/MOHALI: Punjab on Friday reported 165 coronavirus positive cases, including 137 Hazur Sahib pilgrims, who were brought back from Nanded in Maharashtra over the last few days, taking the state’s tally to 709. A total of 314 Nanded-returnees have tested positive in the state so far.
The maximum number of cases --- 61 --- are from Amritsar, including 60 Nanded-returnees, and a National Health Mission (NHM) worker, who was assigned the duty of transporting blood and throat swab samples of Nanded-returnees to Virus Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (VRDL) at GMCH, Amritsar.
Patiala and Ferozepur districts reported 24 fresh cases each. All 24 infected people in Patiala and 18 in Ferozepur came back from Hazur Sahib recently.
Patiala civil surgeon Dr Harish Malhotra said all the positive case are asymptomatic and are being shifted to an isolation ward.
Health authorities say 21 pilgrims are from different parts of Patiala district, while one each from Jalandhar, Sangrur and Gurdaspur districts.
In Ferozepur, 24 persons,
including 18 pilgrims from Nanded and six who returned from Jaisalmer in Rajasthan, tested positive.
Of the 75 pilgrims who arrived from Nanded at Jalalabad in Fazilka district, four were found positive.
JALANDHAR CROSSES 3-DIGIT MARK
Jalandhar district added 16 new cases to its tally on Friday. With this, it became the first district in Punjab to cross the three-digit mark. Health officials said of the positive cases, six have no travel history, eight are close contacts of positive cases, and one infected person is a Nanded-returnee.
SIX NEW CASES IN MOHALI
Five more persons who returned from Takht Hazur Sahib in Nanded, while one from Jawahapur village in Dera Bassi tested positive for Covid-19 in Mohali on Friday, taking the total count to 92 in the district. Among the pilgrims, a 56-year-old woman, her 20-year-old son and 70-year-old woman, all residents of Khanpur in Kharar, a 30-year-old man from Badala and 40-year-old woman from Choti Nangal in Kharar were tested positive for the virus. A 20-year-old, son of a “panch”, who was first person to be infected in village Jawahapur, also tested positive for coronavirus.
A 54-year-old Moga resident, who returned from Nanded, tested positive for coronavirus in Ludhiana on Friday, taking the districts count to six.
Six, including five Nanded pilgrims, tested positive for the virus in Fatehgarh Sahib.
Meanwhile, a combine operator from Makhupur village also tested positive. Ludhiana district reported 22 fresh cases, including 18 Nanded-returnees.