BJP’S Doon MLA Pammi among 176 test positive in HP

SHIMLA/DHARAMSHALA: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator Paramjeet Singh Pammi, who represents the Doon assembly segment in Solan district, has tested positive for Covid-19.

Pammi had visited Amritsar on August 16 and also gone to Golden Temple.

Two people succumbed to the virus in Dharamshala and Chamba, taking the death toll in the state to 19. The Covid-tally reached 4,411 with 176 more people testing positive. Of new cases, 51 were reported in Solan, 28 in Bilaspur, 21 each in Mandi and Sirmaur, sixteen in Kangra, 12 in Chamba, 10 in Kinnaur, five in Kullu, four each in Shimla and Hamirpur and three Una.