Eight more test +ve in HP, count now 281
DHARAMSHALA: Eight more people tested positive for Covid-19 in Himachal Pradesh on Thursday, taking the state’s tally to 281. Four cases were reported from Kangra and three from Solan and one from Mandi.
The active cases in the state are now 199, said special secretary Nipun Jindal.
One of the patients, a 30-yearold woman lives in a rented accommodation at Baddi. Solan deputy commissioner KC Chaman said she had travelled to Shamli in UP earlier this month. She was tested at random.
A mother-son duo, residents of Ramshehar in Nalagarh subdivision, have also tested positive for the virus.
Kangra patients include two women. All the four returned from Thane, Maharashtra recently and were under institutional quarantine, deputy commissioner Rakesh Kumar Prajapati said. One youth from Joginderngar of Mandi district has also been tested positive. He returned from Pune and was institutionally quarantined.
Himachal witnessed a spurt in Covid-19 cases after May 4 with 241 people testing positive for the virus. As many as 189 cases have been reported over the week.
A DANGEROUS GOOF UP
District authorities in Hamirpur have launched a probe after 15 people who had tested positive on Wednesday were erroneously sent home.
Around 40 people from Hamirpur arrived from Mumbai on May 18 and were put under institutional quarantine.
The first batch of reports came out negative on May 21.
On May 26, district health authorities received reports of seven people who had tested positive. However, authorities without waiting for reports of the remaining people declared them negative and sent them home.
On Wednesday, teams of health and district administration rushed to shift the patients to Covid-care centre and put their co-travellers under home quarantine again.