10 of 22 Haryana dists affected
CHANDIGARH: Of total 22 districts of Haryana, 10 have been affected by Covid-19 till date, states the official data as on Thursday. The trend in sample results of the suspected cases shows that 80.3% of them were found to be negative.
Out of total 35 positive cases reported from 10 districts, 10 have been registered from Gurugram, six from Faridabad, four each from Panipat and Palwal, three each from Sirsa and Ambala, two from Panchkula while there has been one case each in Hisar, Sonepat and Rohtak.
Importantly enough, of these 35 cases, nine patients in Gurugram, two in Panipat and one patient each from Faridabad and Palwal have been discharged so far. This means that there are only 22 active cases in state as of now.
Also, even though 14,703 people are under surveillance in Haryana currently, samples of 1,102 people with foreign travel history or symptoms have so far been taken of which, 885 have been found to be negative, while the reports of 182 are awaited.
Senior doctors, including Haryana integrated diseases surveillance programme head Dr Usha Gupta, opine that the state has done better since the beginning in identifying and quarantining the suspected patients as well their contact populations, except for the latest development pertaining to the visitors to the markaz at Nizamuddin.
Even after this, the state quickly identified as well as isolated them and took their samples, reports of some are awaited.
OF THE 35 CASES IN STATE, GURUGRAM HAS MAXIMUM 10, FOLLOWED BY SIX IN FARIDABAD, FOUR EACH IN PANIPAT AND PALWAL, 3 EACH IN SIRSA AND AMBALA
FAMILY’S SAMPLES SENT FOR TESTING
The patient was referred to Amritsar as he was not showing improvement since he was admitted to the civil hospital in Hoshiarpur on March 29.
Hoshiarpur civil surgeon Dr Jasbir Singh said that the man
had received his sister and her family at Delhi airport on March 13. The four members of his sister’s family were asymptomatic but now that their contact has been diagnosed with coronavirus, their samples have also been sent for examination, the civil surgeon said.
So far, six people, including Harbhajan Singh of Moranwali who died last week, have tested positive for Covid-19 in Hoshiarpur district and all belong to Posi block. Pensran village was sealed and the samples of 41 contacts of the infected person have been collected.