UT records 15th Covid death, 35 fresh cases

46-year-old woman tested positive two days after her death

CHANDIGARH: A 46-year-old woman tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday, two days after she was brought dead to Government Multi Specialty Hospital in Sector 16, Chandigarh.

This took the number of fatalities due to the disease in the city to 15, a day after the total number of cases crossed the 1000 mark. As many as nine people have died in July alone.

Meanwhile, 35 more cases were added to the UT’S tally on Friday, taking the number of infections to 1,051, of which 369 are active. The number of people cured has climbed to 667 as 20 more patients were discharged.

According to the UT health department’s Covid-19 bulletin the deceased woman had a “past history of complaints of acute abdominal pain radiating towards the back. She had no history of fever, cough or any co-morbid conditions”. Her three family contacts and four community contacts have been sampled. Their results are awaited.

BANK EMPLOYEE TESTS POSITIVE

The new cases have been reported from Sectors 23, 26, 29, 32, 34, 35, 38, 39, 40, 43, 47, 48 and 49 besides Manimajra, Mauli Jagran, Bapu Dham Colony, Dhanas and Kajheri.

Among them is a 24-year-old staffer of a private bank in Sector 37. Her eight workplace contacts have been quarantined and tested. A portion of the bank has been closed too.

44 PGIMER STAFFERS QUARANTINED

Meanwhile, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research has quarantined around 44 health workers, including eight doctors, sources said.

In the last couple of days, eight PGIMER employees have contracted the infection. The source of infection is some of these cases is suspected to be a Covid-19 patient who died in the Liver ICU.