1 death, 59 new cases in Punjab
LUDHIANA/AMRITSAR/BATHINDA: Punjab on Thursday reported one death and 59 new coronavirus cases, taking the state’s case tally to 2,506.
A 62-year old resident of Katra Sher Singh in Amritsar died of Covid-19 at Government Medical College And Hospital on Thursday night, civil surgeon Dr Jugal Kishore said.
Ludhiana topped the positive cases chart with 24 cases followed by Amritsar 15, Jalandhar six, Pathankot four Bathinda three and one each in Muktsar, Fazilka, Rupnagar, Barnala, Kapurthala and Gurdaspur and one in Patiala.
The Majha region reported 20 fresh cases. “Of the 15 people tested positive in Amritsar, 11 are community transmission cases,” said the civil surgeon . Besides, a private doctor from the Katra Praja area contracted infection.
Four cases were reported from Pathankot and one from Gurdaspur.
Ludhiana civil surgeon Dr Rajesh Bagga said the new cases include two-year-old daughter of the doctor couple from Khanna who had tested positive for the virus two days ago.
Besides, four contacts of a 20-year-old man from Baupur village in Khanna , have tested positive. Fifteen contacts of a Chhawani Mohalla patient also tested positive.
Five new cases of Covid-19, including three siblings in Bathinda, were reported in south Malwa region on Thursday. In Fazilka, a 45-year-old woman was tested positive. Muktsar also reported a fresh coronavirus case.
Fifty-one cops, including Barnala SSP have been home quarantined after a drug accused, tested positive for Covid-19.
In Rupnagar, a 23-year-old man, who returned from Delhi recently, tested positive.
An ASI, 50, posted at Begowal police station in Kapurthala tested positive for coronavirus.
His 17 close contacts, including the nine cops of the police station, have been quarantined at Bholath civil hospital. A 17-yearold resident of Nabha tested positive in Patiala. He had returned from Chennai recently and was quarantined. Four persons, including a pregnant woman from Lama Pind, tested positive for coronavirus in Jalandhar.
Besides, a Rahon man, who returned from Kuwait, tested positive of virus in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar.