NRI, 3 FLIERS FROM MUMBAI FOUND INFECTED IN MOHALI

MOHALI : A 32-year-old NR) from the US and three others who flew into Chandigarh International Airport from Mumbai on domestic flights tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday, taking the district count to 110.

The NRI had been quarantined since May 20 at the Meritorious School. A resident of Humayun Nagar in Dera Bassi, he had landed at the Delhi airport and reached Mohali by road after which the district administration officials quarantined him.

The other three included two men, aged 32 and 30 from Sector 67 and Phase 10, respectively, and a 29-year-old woman from

Zirakpur. All of them came in from Mumbai on May 25, the day flight services resumed. The health department had taken random samples at the Chandigarh airport.

Dr Manjit Singh, civil surgeon, Mohali, said all four patients had been moved to Gian Sagar Hospital in Banur. Their contacts had been traced and their samples will be taken on Friday.

Five other fliers from different districts who tested positive included two from Ludhiana, one each from Patiala, Barnala and Jalandhar. Their samples were also taken at the airport.

of infection is unknown. Earlier, a 67-year-old man with no contact history with a positive person was found infected on May 1. He has since been discharged.

TWO DISCHARGED

Chandigarh on Thursday recorded two more recoveries with a 24-year-old health worker from GMSH and a 35-year-old man from Sector 7 being discharged from hospitals.

UT‘S recovery rate stands at 65% against the national recovery rate of 42.7%, while the fatality rate is 1.3% against the national average of 2.8%.