With 31 new cases, Haryana’s Covid-19 count climbs to 548
CHANDIGARH: With 31 fresh cases, most with a Delhi link, the Covid-19 count in Haryana climbed to 544 on Tuesday.
The new cases include 11 from Gurugram and eight from Jhajjar. Senior health officials said that of these, 14 had been frequenting Delhi’s Azadpur mandi. Among others, five cases were reported from Sonepat, three from Karnal, two from Yamunanagar and one each from Faridabad and Panipat.
Health officials say all these patients had contracted infection from already infected persons working or frequenting Delhi.
On Monday, the state had recorded 77 cases, the highest ever jump in a day till date.
4 MEDICAL COLLEGE EMPLOYEES POSITIVE
As many as five persons, including four employees of BPS Medical College for Women at Khanpur Kalan, tested positive for Covid-19 in Sonepat. They include two sweepers, a Class 4 employee and a staff nurse of the institution. The other patient is a resident of Jati village who got infected from a Delhi-based person.
Sonepat civil surgeon BK Rajoura said that all the infected persons had been sent to isolation ward at BPS in Khanpur Kalan.
EIGHT IN JHAJJAR
Eight persons found infected with Covid-19 in Jhajjar included five vegetable sellers, who frequented Delhi’s Azadpur Mandi. The remaining three are Delhi-based labourers, who had shifted to Bahadurgarh after the imposition of the nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the virus.
JAUNDICE PATIENT AMONG 2 INFECTED IN Y’NAGAR
Two more people tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Yamunanagar, taking the tally to eight in the district. Civil surgeon Dr Vijay Dahiya said a 33-yearold woman from Sarojini Colony in Yamunanagar city area and a 61-year-old man from Kutipur village tested positive. The elderly man has some chronic kidney ailment and black jaundice.
3 CASES IN PANIPAT
Though the official bulletin mentioned only one fresh case in Panipat, later in the evening two more cases came to the fore.
AMBALA GETS 5 MORE CONTAINMENT ZONES
Meanwhile, a day after Ambala recorded its highest ever spike with 23 cases, the administration swung into action and declared five new containment zones and screened over 27,000.