Haryana records its fifth Covid death; three scribes in Panipat test positive
CHANDIGARH: Even as Haryana registered its fifth Covid-19 death on Saturday, as many as 19 new cases -- 12 from Jhajjar, six from Gurugram and one from Yamunanagar -- took the state’s Covid-19 count to 376 on Saturday.
A 62-year-old woman from Ambala, who had tested positive for the virus on Monday, died at Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh. This is the second death due to coronavirus in the district. District civil surgeon Dr Kuldeep Singh said the woman hailed from Ratangarh. “She was diabetic for the past 15 years and had liver-related ailments besides chronic kidney disease for the past three years.,” he said.
Meanwhile, as many as 12 new patients, 11 of whom are vegetable sellers who frequented the Delhi’s Azadpur mandi and a woman working as a nurse in a Delhi hospital, were reported positive since Friday night in Jhajjar. Also, six new cases were reported from Gurugram, with which the state’s count for active cases swelled to 129.
While Jhajjar has 40 active cases as of Saturday, Gurugram has 25, Sonepat, 22, Faridabad, 18, Panipat, 8, Nuh, 5, Hisar, Palwal and Sirsa, two each, Panchkula, Ambala, Bhiwani, Rohtak and Yamunanagar have, one each active case.
Though the official bulletin did not mention this, as many as 10 persons from Panipat, including three scribes working with a vernacular newspaper and one person working with a YouTube channel, tested positive for the virus.
Health officials said their contact tracing is underway.
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A 27-year-old man in Yamunanagar, who returned from Nanded in Maharastra recently, has tested positive for the coronavirus. He had arrived from Ambala, where he had tested negative earlier. Civil surgeon Dr Vijay Dahiya said that the patient was a resident of Kalindi colony.
Later in the evening, four other pilgrims from Fatehabad, which included three women, also tested positive for the virus.
They had returned from Nanded recently. Dy CMO Dr Hanuman said, “Two of the women are above the age of 60 while one is 38 years old. The fourth, a man, is 45.