Chandigarh sees steepest single-day spike as 29 test +ve

29 NEW CASES 3-day-old girl of Dadumajra couple tests positive after death; Bapu Dham records 28 fresh cases 250 IN 67 DAYS No. of confirmed cases mounts to 262, with 72 still active, as seven more patients get discharged

CHANDIGARH:A three-day-old girl became Chandigarh’s fourth coronavirus fatality as the city witnessed its biggest single-day spike, with 29 testing positive on Sunday. The number of confirmed cases in the city has mounted to 262. The newborn’s parents are from Dadumajra. After her birth at the civil hospital in Sector 22, she was reported to be brought dead at Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education at 11pm on Saturday. She was reported to be Covid-19 positive on Sunday.

CHANDIGARH: A three-day-old girl became the fourth fatality linked to coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in Chandigarh on Sunday, as the city also witnessed its biggest single-day spike, with 29 infections reported. The number of confirmed cases in the city has climbed up to 262, of which 72 remain active as seven more patients were discharged..

The newborn’s parents are from Dadumajra. After her birth at the civil hospital in Sector 22, she was reported to be brought dead at Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education at 11pm on Saturday. She was reported to be Covid-19 positive posthumously on Sunday.

Her mother’s reports are awaited, even as national guidelines call for sampling of pregnant women before delivery.

Meanwhile, there is no let-up in the number of infections in the congested Bapu Dham Colony in Sector 26, as 28 fresh cases were reported there on Sunday, taking the colony’s count to 189, 72% of the city’s total.

This is also steepest increase in the number of cases in Chandigarh, the last being on May 9, when 20 infections were reported.

Among the fresh cases in the colony, 11 are males, 11 are females and identities of six were unknown at the time of filing of this report. In morning, five cases were reported: four women, two aged 30 and two others 23 and 37, and a male aged 18.

In the reports received in the afternoon, nine more cases were reported, including six males, aged between 14 to 42 years, of three households in the same building, and three males, aged 28, 38 and 45, from two households in another building.

Later in the evening, eight cases were reported from four households: six females, aged 6, 18, 23, 25, 28 and 50, and two males, aged three and 32. Six more were reported at night.

NO FRESH COVID-19 CASE IN MOHALI FOR 14 DAYS

Besides not a single active Covid-19 case left, there has been no fresh infection reported in Mohali district for the past 14 days. The last case was reported on May 10 while the two remaining patients were discharged on May 21. In the past two months, the district has recorded 105 Covid-19 cases, of which 102 people defeated the virus while three succumbed. In the past two weeks, the health department has been taking around 100 samples from the entire district every day, but all have tested negative so far.

While urging people to take precautions, civil surgeon Dr Manjit Singh said: “We have to wait for 14 days after the last positive case to declare the district virus-free.”

Meanwhile, Panchkula has recorded 25 cases, of which only one remains active. While 23 people were cured, a woman patient under treatment died of heart attack hours after testing negative for Covid-19 and was not accounted for among fatalities due to the infection.