82-yr-old woman is UT’s first fatality; 3 new cases crop up

Sec 18 resident had asthma and hypertension, tested positive on April 20

CHANDIGARH: An 82-year-old woman became the first Covid-19 patient from Chandigarh to die, even as three new cases were reported on Sunday, taking the city’s count to 97, of which 21 persons have recovered.

The woman, a Sector 18 resident who died at a private hospital in Panchkula, was a patient of asthma and hypertension with recent episodes of loss of consciousness. She fell sick after visits to her son’s house in Panchkula on April 14 from another son’s residence in Chandigarh, and tested positive on April 20 after being admitted to the hospital. She was the 27th Covid-19 patient from Chandigarh.

This is the third Covid-19 death in the tricity. The two others include a 65-year-old man from Nayagaon and a 74-year-old woman from Kharar in Mohali district. All of them had underlying conditions.

NEW CASES FROM BAPU DHAM, SECTOR 30

Among the three new cases two are residents of Sector 30 and one is from Bapu Dham Colony.

“A 40-year-old man and his three-year-old son, residents of Sector 30, have been reported as positive. They are contacts of a positive case of the same household. Three other household contacts have, however, tested negative,” an official release said.

Similarly, a 13-year-old-boy living in Bapu Dham Colony in Sector 26 has contracted the disease. He has 11 family contacts and 82 community contacts, all under observation.

TWO PATIENTS DISCHARGED

Meanwhile, two more residents were discharged from the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), taking the count of discharged patients to 21.

The patients include 50-yearold PGIMER staffer from Kachi Colony, Dhanas, and a 56-yearold male resident of Sector 30-B.

As for test positivity rates, the overall rate of Chandigarh on Sunday stood at 6% while the national average was 3.8%. The increase was registered after the spike in the number of cases in the city in the last week of April.

From March 18 to April 25, just 734 persons were tested in the city of which 4% tested positive. However, between April 26 to May 3, 880 persons were tested, of which 7.6% tested positive.