2 DEATHS, 144 FRESH CASES TAKE PUNJAB COVID COUNT TO 1,634
NO LET-UP 114 Nanded pilgrims were tested positive on Wednesday
Two deaths linked to Covid-19 were reported in Punjab as the state recorded 144 cases, including 114 Nanded pilgrims, on Wednesday. A 30-year-old patient from Jalandhar died at the PGIMER and a 39-yearold man succumbed to the virus in Patiala.
CHANDIGARH/JALANDHAR/PATIALA: Two deaths linked to Covid-19 were reported in Punjab as the state recorded 144 cases, including 114 Nanded pilgrims, on Wednesday.
A 30-year-old patient from Jalandhar died at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, on Wednesday, while a 39-year-old man who died at Patiala’s Mata Kaushlaya Hospital on Tuesday was tested positive for the virus on Wednesday.
The Jalandhar patient was suffering from kidney disease and hypertension and had tested positive for the novel coronavirus on April 30. Patiala patient had comorbid conditions, such as hypotension, cardiac ailment and was on epilepsy medication, civil surgeon Dr Harish Malhotra said.
The total count of Covid-19 patients in the state has now gone up to 1,634.
Chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh said there had been a spike in cases after Punjabis started returning from Rajasthan and Maharashtra. “Of the 4,200-odd people who had returned from Nanded, 969 had tested positive, though only 23 of them were symptomatic,” he said.
Tarn Taran’s tally of 57 cases, all of them Hazur Sahib pilgrims, was the biggest from any district in the state on Wednesday. Among the fresh cases are 21 women and 6 children. With this, the total number of the cases in the district has gone up to 144 and 143 of them have Nanded link, while one patient had recently returned from Rajasthan.
Thirty-six cases were recorded in Amritsar and all of them have Hazur Sahib link. All the 17 cases recorded in Moga on Wednesday have Nanded link, taking the district count to 55.
Two migrant workers were among the 15 positive cases in Mansa on Wednesday and four of have Hazur Sahib link.
Five fresh cases, including a 19-year-old girl, were detected in Patiala, while four cases were reported in Ferozepur district. Four Covid-19 cases were recorded in Gurdaspur.
One case each was reported in Jalandhar, SBS Nagar and Hoshiarpur on Wednesday.
In Jalandhar, a 56-year-old supervisor of a prominent private hospital tested positive. The hospital staff have been home quarantined, health officials said. In SBS Nagar, 27-year-old youth of Balachaur sub-division tested positive and he was a contact of a truck driver who had tested positive recently.
In Hoshiarpur district, a youth tested positive and he was a close contact of a Nanded pilgrim.
An eight-year-old girl child was tested positive in Bathinda on Wednesday.
In Muktsar, a 30-year-old migrant worker was tested positive. After a gap of two days, Mohali recorded a fresh case on Wednesday, taking the district’s count to 96. The 57-year-old patient is a resident of Golden Sand Society in Zirakpur and had underwent a surgery.