2 deaths, 38 fresh Covid-19 cases surface in Punjab

AMRITSAR/JALANDHAR/LUDHIANA: A 60-year-old arhtiya from Pathankot and an octogenarian ex-serviceman lost their battle with the Covid-19 infection, even as 38 fresh coronovirus cases were recorded in Punjab on Tuesday.

With this the state’s tally of total Covid-19 cases has gone up to 2,420 and number of deaths to 47.

Of the 12 fresh cases in Jalandhar, 10 people tested positive in Defence Colony alone, eight of them family members of a Covid-19 patient. Nine Covid-19 cases were reported in Majha region — two in Amritsar, four in Gurdaspur and seven in Pathankot — on Tuesday.

A 55-year-old anganwadi worker was among the three people who tested positive for Covid-19 in Sangrur.

An undertrial who was out on bail tested positive for coronavirus in Hoshiarpur, while two women who had returned from Ahmedabad were found infected from the virus in Moga.

A 35-year-old man who returned from Kuwait last week and was lodged at a quarantine facility in Faridkot tested positive for coronavirus on Tuesday.

In Patiala, a 22-year-old Rajpura resident, who had returned from Kuwait on May 27, was found infected. He was quarantined at Gurdwara sahib at Bahadurgarh since his return.

In Fatehgarh Sahib district, a 28-year-old Mandi Gobindgarh resident also tested positive.

Also, two inmates from Kapurthala, who were released on parole from Ludhiana jail recently, tested positive for Covid-19. Two women tested positive in Ludhiana.