Bapu Dham man city’s 6th fatality

Pregnant woman among four other cases; six recover, taking total past 300

CHANDIGARH: A 60-year-old man from Bapu Dham Colony, who was admitted to Government Multi Specialty Hospital in Sector 16 on June 12, tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday, a day after his death.

He is the city’s sixth Covid-19 fatality and second from the congested colony in Sector 26. In five of these cases, the infection was found after the patient’s death.

Meanwhile, four other cases surfaced in the city on Monday, including that of a 30-year-old pregnant woman from Sector 52 and a 65-year-old woman from Bapu Dham Colony, which accounts for 245 cases so far. Two other cases have been reported from Khudda Jassu, taking the city’s tally to 357.

However, with six people being discharged after getting cured, the number of recoveries climbed to 301. The number of active cases stands at 50.

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Giving details about the death, health officials said the man with history of hypertension was admitted to hospital with interstitial lung disease and severe acute respiratory infection. He died while his Covid-19 reports were awaited. He has four family contacts and all of them are being sampled, said officials.

Among the other cases, a man and a woman, both aged 32 and relatives of an already positive case from Khudda Jassu, have contracted the infection. The Khudda Jassu man worked in a Sector 16 medical store, whose owner was the first to be found infected. Four other family members of the worker were also tested positive earlier.

A 30-year-old pregnant woman from Sector 52, who is expecting delivery next week, was tested positive at a hospital in Kharar. Her seven family contacts have been quarantined. Also, six family members of the Bapu Dham Colony woman, who tested positive, have been sampled.

Raising concern about the rising number of cases, UT administrator VP Singh Badnore directed health officials to focus on visitors coming from outside and also to take special care of patients with comorbidities. The doctors informed the administration that in the past few days, out of 530 samples tested at the PGIMER, only 11 have been positive. Similarly, out of 149 samples tested at GMCH, Sector 32, only one was positive.