No let-up: Tricity records sharpest jump with 349 cases
CHANDIGARH DC OFFICE CLOSED TODAY MOHALI’S FIRST PLASMA THERAPY
CHANDIGARH/MOHALI/PANCHKULA: The tricity on Thursday recorded its steepest single-day spike of 349 Covid-19 cases, surpassing the previous day’s high of 311.
Chandigarh and Panchkula recorded the highest jumps within 24 hours with 119 and 98 cases, respectively, while Mohali had 132 fresh cases.
The tricity had logged 311 cases on August 19, the day Mohali and Panchkula also reported highs of 134 and 86 cases, respectively.
CHANDIGARH CROSSES 2,500 MARK
With 119 new cases, Chandigarh crossed the 2,500 mark to reach 2,505, while the death toll remained constant at 31.
Thursday’s 39 recoveries took the number of patients discharged to 1,390, leaving 1,092 active cases.
Patients testing positive included DSP Dilsher Singh, subdivisional police officer, East, and an employee of the deputy commissioner’s office. The other cases were reported from 25 different sectors, besides Dadumajra, Manimajra, Burail, Daria,
Mauli Jagran, Kishangarh, Khuda Lahora, Hallomajra, Ram Darbar and Dhanas
TWO MORE DEATHS IN MOHALI
With two more men succumbing to Covid-19 in Mohali on Thursday, the district’s death toll at Gian Sagar Hospital in Banur. He suffered from hypertension.
Among the 132 new cases, 38 are from Mohali city, 31 from Zirakpur, 24 from Kharar, 10 from Gharuan block, eight each from Dera Bassi and Banur, seven from Kurali and six from Lalru.with 33 patients also discharged on Thursday, the number of recoveries has risen to 1,206, leaving 1,019 active cases.
98 TEST POSITIVE IN PANCHKULA, 1 DEAD
One death and 98 positive cases on Thursday took Panchkula’s count to 1,427, according to the Panchkula administration’s daily bulletin.
Five cases were reported from the Indo-tibetan Border Police camp as well.
The deceased was a 75-year-old woman from Sector 16. “She reported to the Civil Hospital on August 16 for a test and was confirmed positive. Reluctant to be hospitalised, she was admitted on August 18, but by then she had developed respiratory distress. She died on the night of August 19,” said Dr Jasjeet Kaur, civil surgeon.
Panchkula has 459 active cases, 959 have been discharged and nine have died.
CHANDIGARH: The Chandigarh deputy commissioner’s office in Sector 17 will remain closed on Friday as two employees tested positive here in the last 48 hours. Deputy commissioner Mandip Singh Brar said that for sanitisation purposes, the office will remain closed and employees will work from home. He said that contact tracing was being conducted.
MOHALI : In the first Covid-19 plasma therapy conducted in Mohali, sub-divisional magistrate Jagdeep Sehgal, who recovered from the Covid-19 infection about three weeks ago, donated his plasma to a deputy superintendent of police, whose condition suddenly deteriorated on Wednesday night. Currently, three hospitals in Mohali have been permitted to carry out plasma therapy. These include Fortis Hospital in Phase 8, Max Hospital in Phase 6 and Grecian Hospital in Sector 69.