HP Police headquarters sealed, DGP Kundu, 28 cops in quarantine 24 test positive for virus in Himachal

SHIMLA/DHARAMSHALA : Twentyfour people tested positive for Covid-19 in Himachal Pradesh on Tuesday taking the state’s tally to 445.

Eight cases were reported from Sirmaur, six from Kangra, five from Una, two from Bilaspur and one each from Hamirpur and Mandi.

EIGHT FOUND INFECTED IN PHARMA UNIT AT KALA AMB

Eight cases have been reported at a pharmaceutical manufacturing unit located in Kala Amb of Sirmaur.

They include owner of Orison Pharmaceutical International, his son and wife, the chief executive officer and three employees.

Siramur deputy commissioner RK Pruthi said 41 samples were sent for testing to the Central Research Institute (CRI), Kasauli, on Monday, of which 33 tested negative.

Pruthi said seven out of eight patients were in Haryana and the Sirmaur administration had informed the authorities of the state.

The patient who is in Himachal has been shifted to a Covid-care centre. The pharma unit was sealed after one of its employees tested positive for Covid-19 on June 5.

SIX CASES IN KANGRA

Six cases have been reported in Kangra, the most populous district of the state. Kangra Deputy Commissioner Rakesh Kumar Prajapati said that among the patients is a 31year-old man who returned from Delhi. Other 25-yearold man travelled back from Ludhiana. The third patient a 29-year-old man came from Chandigarh.

Apart from it, three more Delhi returned men aged 51, 41 and 40 have tested positive, said Prajapati adding that all were under institutional quarantine.