Hindustan Times (Chandigarh)

3 cases each surface in UT, Mohali

UNLOCK 2: NIGHT CURFEW SET TO BE CURTAILED BY HOUR IN CHANDIGARH

- HT Correspond­ent

CHANDIGARH/MOHALI/PANCHKULA: Three more cases of Covid-19 were reported from three different sectors on Monday, taking Chandigarh’s tally to 434.

Three people also tested positive in Mohali, taking the district’s total to 259, while no new case surfaced in Panchkula, where 111 people have been infected so far.

A 60-year-old woman tested positive in Sector 29, Chandigarh. A son, who stays with her, has been tested too. Her other contacts are a son who lives in Sector 33 and a daughter who lives in Panjab University.

A 15-year-old boy from Sector 41 who is the family member of a previous positive case from the same sector has also contracted the infection. The third case was reported from Sector 23, where a 39-year-old man has been found infected. He has three family

After the central government on Monday issued guidelines for the Phase 2 of Unlock, the UT administra­tion is all set to change the timings of night curfew to between 10pm and 5am. Currently, it is from 9pm to 5am

Chandigarh, being a Union Territory, will be following the central guidelines in toto, confirmed a senior official. Final decisions regarding relaxation­s will be taken in the UT administra­tor’s war room meeting

members, who have been sampled.

Meanwhile, 13 patients have been discharged, which takes the number of recovered patients to 349 and active cases to 79.

In Mohali, a 28-year-old man

The administra­tion is also actively considerin­g allowing restaurant­s and hotels to serve liquor from July 1. The administra­tion had decided not to allow serving of liquor till June 30 and put off the decision till the end of Unlock 1

Recently, the Hotels and Restaurant­s Associatio­n, Chandigarh, gave a memorandum to the administra­tion to allow them to serve liquor on the pattern of Punjab and extend

from Mauli Baidwan, who had flu-like symptoms, and a 30-yearold man and a 24-year-old woman of Baheda village, who were contacts of a patient, tested positive.

Meanwhile, two patients from Kurali, including a seven-yearold girl, were discharged. The district has 60 active cases, as 196 people have been cured and three have died so far.

DSW OFFICE SHUT IN PU

The office of dean students’ welfare (DSW) remained closed at Panjab University on Monday after an employee tested positive for Covid-19 and 14 others were quarantine­d on Sunday. “The office is being sanitised,” said DSW SK Tomar.

However, the administra­tion block and Aruna Ranjit Chandra Hall, which were closed for sanitisati­on after the first Covid-19 case surfaced at PU on June 24, reopened on Monday.

Meanwhile, UT administra­tor VPS Badnore on Monday directed health officials to focus on vulnerable categories, such as pregnant women, senior citizens and children. He said residents should immediatel­y report any symptom so that treatment could be started early.

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