DSP, SMO among 101 found infected

ANOTHER SPIKE At least 15 health dept employees, including a senior medical officer, posted at Ropar civil hospital infected; 5 other cops are also on the list

CHANDIGARH:Punjab recorded 101 fresh infections on Sunday, taking the state’s tally of corona positive cases to 1,893. A deputy superintendent of police (DSP), a senior medical officer (SMO), three other doctors and at least 15 health department employees were among who tested positive. Five pilgrims, who recently returned from Takht Hazur Sahib in Maharashtra’s Nanded, are also on the list of fresh patients. The SMO and 15 health department employees are posted at the Rupnagar civil hospital, officials said.

Of the total 46 persons tested positive in Rupnagar, seven belong to Mohali, two to Patiala district and 3 to Chandigarh.

In Fatehgarh Sahib district, 20 persons, including a woman doctor and a 13-year-old, were tested positive. The boy, a resident of Khamano, returned from Himachal Pradesh recently. The district’s tally of positive cases has reached 48.

RUPNAGAR/PATIALA/KAPURTHALA/ JALANDHAR/BATHINDA: A deputy superintendent of police (DSP), a senior medical officer (SMO), three other doctors, at least 15 health department employees and five more policemen were among 101 people who tested positive for the coronavirus in Punjab on Sunday, taking the state’s tally of those infected by the disease to 1,893.

Also, on the list of fresh patients are five pilgrims who returned from Takht Hazur Sahib in Maharashtra’s Nanded.

46 TEST POSITIVE IN RUPNAGAR

The SMO and 15 health department employees are posted in the Rupnagar civil hospital, officials said. Besides, reports of 30 more persons from the district came positive. Of the total 46 persons tested positive in Rupnagar, 7 belong to Mohali, 2 to Patiala district and 3 to Chandigarh.

The DSP (51) and a 43-year-old constable, who are posted at PAP, Kapurthala, had gone to Nanded as part of a 41-member team to evacuate pilgrims and are under quarantine since their arrival on May 1. The two will be shifted to the isolation ward of the Kapurthala civil hospital.

20 FOUND INFECTED IN FATEHGARH SAHIB

In Fatehgarh Sahib district, 20 persons, including a woman doctor and a 13-year-old, were tested positive. The boy, a resident of Khamano, returned from Himachal Pradesh recently. The district’s tally of positive cases has reached 48.

Civil surgeon Dr NK Aggarwal said contact tracing is on and teams have been deployed to find the source from where the doctor contracted infection,”

The official said most of positive cases are of combine operators who went to Haryana and Madhya Pradesh.

12 FRESH CASES IN MANSA DISTRICT

In Mansa district, 12 persons, including four cops posted at the Budhlada city police station, were found positive. The district now has 25 active cases of Covid-19. The cops were deployed in a containment zone at Budhlada. Three of the patients, all students, returned from Delhi while five are labourers of whom one each came back from MP and Haryana and three from Rajasthan.

12 MORE CASES IN GURDSAPUR

In Gurdaspur, the reports of 12 more persons, including 5 Nanded returnees, were tested positive on Sunday. Now, the number of infected cases in the district has rises to 134.

Of the 134 patients, 117 are Hazur Sahib returnees. Of a total of 1,788 samples collected in the district, 1,559 turned negative whereas the reports of 95 others are awaited, he added.

JALANDHAR COUNT REACHES 173

Eight persons, including two doctors, as many paramedical workers tested positive for the coronavirus in Jalandhar on Sunday. Of the eight, a doctor is from Kapurthala while an 84-year-old is from Gurdaspur district. The other doctor, aged 31, is from Adampur. A total of 173 positive cases, including five deaths, have been reported in the district so far.

A 91-year-old male patient from Kabulpur village is admitted at Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, after he was referred from a Jalandhar hospital.

Also, another positive case was reported in Ludhiana on Sunday. The fresh patient is 22-year-old youth whose father was tested positive on May 7.

(Inputs from Kapurthala, Gurdaspur and Ludhiana)