3 Sec-25 women, 2 from Ram Darbar test positive in UT

ARE FAMILY CONTACTS OF TWO PEOPLE WHO WERE FOUND INFECTED EARLIER; IN MOHALI, CONTACTS OF THREE +VE CASES FOUND INFECTED

CHANDIGARH: Five women tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Chandigarh on Wednesday, taking the Union Territory’s Covid-19 count to 370. As many 58 of these cases are active.

Three women, aged 26, 30 and 54, have tested positive in Sector 25. They are family contacts of a 35-year-old employee of the Punjab Municipal Infrastructure Development Company, who was one of the eight people to test positive for the infection on Tuesday.

Two other women, aged 25 and 48, are from Ram Darbar. They, too, are family contacts of a positive case.

Meanwhile, three residents of Bapu Dham Colony, Sector 26, and one of Daria were discharged on Wednesday and moved to a quarantine facility. As many as 306 people have recovered while six have succumbed so far.

PGIMER STAFFERS QUARANTINED

As many as 32 “high-risk” healthcare workers, including 17 doctors, at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research Chandigarh have been quarantined after they were exposed to a Covid-19 positive patient.

In all, 71 staffers were contact traced after a 42-year-old woman from Punjab’s Kapurthala, who was admitted in a critical condition upon furnishing a negative Covid-19 test report on June 12, tested positive on June 15.

All high-risk contacts are quarantined for 14 days from the last day of exposure and they will be tested between the seventh and tenth day of quarantine, stated an official statement.

NINE FRESH CASES IN MOHALI’S DERA BASSI

Nine people tested positive for Covid-19 in Mohali on Wednesday, taking the district’s total count to 193.

All cases have been reported from Dera Bassi subdivison, which accounts for 52% of the infections in the district.

A 35-year-old woman and her 18-year-old son from Dappar are among the fresh cases. They contracted the virus from the woman’s husband who had tested positive after returning from Delhi on June 8.

Other five patients are a 24-year-old man from Zirakpur, and three women, aged 30, 36, and 53, and a man, aged 30, from Dera Bassi town. They, too, are contacts of a positive patient, who had travelled from Delhi recently. Meanwhile, a 48-yearold woman and a 21-year-old man of Baltana in Zirakpur, contacts of positive patients of Chandigarh, tested positive.