SOURCE OF 19 COVID CASES IN AMRITSAR DIST STILL UNTRACED

AMRITSAR:Two days after the Punjab health department began collecting blood samples from people in four vulnerable districts under the ‘Community Transmission Surveillance Programme’ to find if the community transmission stage of Covid-19 has started in the state, there are 19 cases in Amritsar where there is no history of foreign or domestic travel or contact with any covid-19 positive patients.

Amritsar has 315 positive cases to date, with 295 cured. Some of those whose source of infection could not be traced have been discharged.

Amritsar civil surgeon Dr Jugal Kishore said, “To date, the district has reported 19 cases of community transmission whose source of infection are still unclear. These cases were tested for covid-19 in flu corners when they had shown symptoms of the disease. The four cases that came on Thursday are also community transmission, as these patients have no foreign travel history. The patients had not even met any identified coronavirus patient. Their source of infection is untraced.”

He added, “Contact tracing of community transmission cases is on. Samples of close contacts of the four patients have been sent for testing. There could be more community transmission cases.”