HT CHANDIGARH: 13 FRESH CASES TAKE UT’S CORONA COUNT TO 115, NO LET-UP IN DHANAS

ANOTHER SPIKE 10 from Bapu Dham take its share to 50%; two of Sec-30 family, elderly woman from Dhanas also +ve

CHANDIGARH: With 13 fresh cases of infection coming to the fore, the Covid-19 tally rose to 115 in Chandigarh on Tuesday.

Among the fresh cases, 10 are from the hotspot Bapu Dham Colony, Sector 26, two from the other containment zone in Sector 30B and one — a 60-year-old woman — from the rehabilitation colony in Dhanas.

The woman’s seven family contacts and six community contacts have been sampled. Her husband had returned from Bengaluru during the lockdown, which could be the source of infection, though it is not confirmed yet, said officials. The woman had reached Government Multi Speciality Hospital, Sector 16, with flu-like symptoms on Monday.

Among those infected in Bapu Dham Colony, six are from the same family and are community contacts of two already diagnosed patients. Others include two men, aged 20 and 42, and two girls, aged 4 and 16. In the case of 42-year-old man, 10 family contacts and 15 community contacts have been traced. Contact tracing is underway in other cases.

In Sector 30, a 49-year-old man and 12-year-old woman of the same household have tested positive. They are family contacts of a patient from the same sector.

With the fresh cases, the chain of transmission in Bapu Dham Colony, which has been attributed to a single source, has infected 58 people, accounting for 50% of Chandigarh’s count.

Meanwhile, in the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, only one patient from Chandigarh — a Sector 38 resident — is admitted in the intensive care unit, said official spokesperson Dr Ashok Kumar. Other patients are admitted in the wards and are showing good signs of recovery.

Meanwhile, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) had agreed to provide additional testing kits to the PGIMER. All testing centres are being directed to enhance the number of testing in the city. Administrator VP Singh Badnore directed that more testing needs to be conducted in containment zones to arrest infection.