7-year-old among 10 more found infected in Punjab

HOSHIARPUR/SANGRUR/AMRITSAR: Punjab recorded 10 Cvoid-19 cases on Tuesday, taking the state’s tally of positive cases to 2,200. Four cases, including a 7-year-old, were reported from Hoshiarpur district. The infected persons are contacts of Nangli Jalalpur resident who had died of the virus a few days ago. Civil surgeon Jasbir Singh said all these persons were asymptomatic.

Two men from Moonak town of Sangrur district tested positive on Tuesday. Officials said the victims have been shifted to isolation wards and their primary contacts are being traced.

In Amritsar, two men of Islamabad area were found infected with the virus.

“Both the men had complained of chest congestion and fever at the flu corners after which their swabs were sent for testing and were found to be positive. These are community transmission cases and their contact tracing is on,” said Amritsar civil surgeon Dr Jugal Kishore.

A day after Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district was declared Covid-19 free, a migrant woman, resident of Guru Teg Bahadur Nagar, tested positive on Tuesday.

In Ludhiana, a 50-year-old airport employee tested positive for Covid-19.

He was among the 11 passengers who had arrived at the Sahnewal airport from Delhi on Monday.

All his co-passengers tested negative for the virus. Deputy commissioner Pradeep Agrawal said the infected person was a Delhi resident and works as a security staff in Air India.