ONE MORE TESTS POSITIVE IN FARIDABAD, HRY TALLY NOW 17

KARNAL: With the second positive case from Faridabad, the number of Covid-19 patient’s in Haryana increased to 17 on Wednesday.

As per the bulletin released by health department, Gurugram still has 10 positive Covid-19 patients, Faridabad and Panipat have two positive cases each and Palwal, Panchkula and Sonepat have one positive case each. Two more cases were reported in Delhi, however, the patients were residents of Gurugram.

The bulletin said the samples of 461 suspected persons had been sent to the national institute of virology, Pune, of which the samples of 336 persons were found to be negative while 111 reports are still awaited.

Likewise, the number of passengers put on surveillance till date is 9,714, while 76 persons came in contact with Covid-19 positive cases. They too are under surveillance. While the number of persons who have completed the surveillance period of 28 days was 617, as many as 9,212 persons are still under surveillance.

The number of person currently admitted in different hospital of the state is 126.

21-YEAR-OLD STAFF NURSE TESTS POSITIVE

KARNAL : A 21-year-old Panipatbased staff nurse tested positive for novel coronavirus disease .

The woman, who was posted at a private hospital in Gurugram, had returned home on March 19. She reportedly quarantined herself as soon as she developed symptoms on March 23. Her samples were sent to Government Medical College, Khanpur Kalan. She contracted the infection from one of her patients in Gurugram.

Panipat’s deputy chief medical officer Dr Shashi Garg said, “The woman has been admitted to the isolation ward of a civil hospital in Panipat. The girls’ family has also been quarantined.”

A 21-year-old with a travel history to the UK was the first Covid-19 patient in the district, and a 30-year-old maid from Panipat also tested positive and is admitted at PGIMS Rohtak.