4 more test positive in Punjab, tally 69
AMRITSAR/LUDHIANA/BARNALA: Four fresh cases of the coronavirus were reported in Punjab on Sunday, taking the total number of those infected by the disease to 69.
In Amritsar, two persons were tested positive with the city witnessing more community spread cases, said civil surgeon Dr Prabhdeep Kaur Johal.
“The wife of a 67-year-old man of Krishna Nagar, who was tested positive for the Covid-19 on Friday, was also found infected on Sunday. The couple is admitted to the isolation ward of the Guru Nanak Dev Hospital (GNDH). Both are stable. Their two sons, a daughter-in-law and an eightmonth-old granddaughter, who were also isolated at GNDH, were tested negative,” said Dr Johal.
“Also, a male resident of Chatiwind Gate was tested positive for the virus. He visited the Fortis Hospital Amritsar with breathlessness, fever and cough and was admitted to the isolation ward. He was tested positive. This is another case of community spread,” she said.
In Ludhiana, a 26- year- old man from Rajgarh village in the district tested positive for the disease, becoming the sixth person to be infected by the virus in the district. The man is among 26 persons who allegedly attended the Tablighi Jamaat in the Nizamuddin area in Delhi and was quarantined at the civil hospital.
Civil surgeon Dr Rajesh Bagga said the patient reached Vijaywara in Andhra Pradesh on March 18. “Due to the lockdown, he boarded a flight from Hyderabad and reached Delhi on March 23. It is not yet known where he stayed on March 24 night. In the morning, he took a flight from Delhi to Sahnewal.”
But the patient, who runs a dairy with his family on the outskirts of the village, claimed he did not attend the Tablighi Jamaat. The health department put eight of his family members, including his wife, children and parents, in quarantine at the civil hospital.
In Barnala, a 44-year-old woman was tested positive for the coronavirus on Sunday, becoming the first case of infection in the district. The woman, who has no foreign travel history, was admitted to the civil hospital on April 1 with fever, cough and difficulty in breathing. The street in the locality where the victim lives was sealed as precaution.
STATE’S 1ST CASUALTY’S SON RECOVERS
Jalandhar The 35-year-old son of the first coronavirus casualty in Punjab tested negative for yjr disease for the second time on Sunday, health officials in SBS Nagar said. The man had tested negative for Covid-19 on Saturday as well and will be discharged soon, officials said.
Baldev Singh (70) of Pathlawa village in Banga sub-division, who died on March 18 after he was tested positive, infected 27 of his contacts. Seven others, including four family members of Baldev Singh (three granddaughters and 2-year-old grandson besides, Baba Gurbachan Singh, head of Dera Bhai Ghaniya Singh and Daljinder Singh of Jhikka tested negative on Sunday.
WOMAN WITH FEVER ENDS LIFE IN BARNALA
A day after her samples were tested for covid-19, a 65-year-old woman Santosh Kaur, of Khurampur village in Phagwara, committed suicide on Sunday morning. Police are treating this as a case of panic.