20 new Coronavirus cases in Punjab

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20 new Coronavirus cases in Punjab

Wednesday, 08 April 2020 | PNS | Chandigarh

Punjab on Tuesday reported whopping 20 new coronavirus cases — highest in a single day — from Pathankot (six), Moga (four), Amritsar (one), Mansa (two), and Mohali (seven) districts, besides one death from Amritsar. At the same time, the state witnessed 10 positive patients from Nawanshahr, Hoshiarpur and Mohali recovering.

A total of seven people from Mohali district’s Jawaharpur village were tested positive, where the panch was diagnosed with coronavirus, taking the total number of cases in the district highest in Punjab to 26. As many 11 people from Jawaharpur village, in Dera Bassi tehsil, are positive for COVID-19.

“As many 26 samples were taken by conducting extensive contact tracing after the first positive case from the village was admitted in Chandigarh’s Government medical College and Hospital, Sector 32. Now they all have been shifted to the Gian Sagar Hospital at Banur, which is under Government Management,” said Mohali Deputy Commissioner Girish Dayalan.

“Instead of just quarantining the primary contacts of positive cases, we have taken samples extensively…Similarly, we are also containing the affected areas and stopping inward and outward movement, except for essential supplies,” said Dayalan.

He said that the District Administration is undertaking extensive contact tracing to detect possible corona virus positive cases which is clear from the fact that out of 2,368 samples taken in Punjab, nearly 600, that is 25 percent have been taken by the Mohali Administration through contact tracing.

“A total of 118 samples of the further contacts of those found positive have been taken. As a part of the immediate starting of the containment protocol, 522 houses have been subjected to survey for checking of symptoms,” he said adding that the entire village has already been sealed as a precautionary measure.

Six persons were tested positive in Pathankot, including the 78-year-old husband of a woman who died of the infection recently. The 75-year-old woman, from Sujanpur, was the first person to test positive for coronavirus contagion in the district.  Gurdaspur Deputy Commissioner Gurpreet Singh Khaira said that the COVID victim’s husband, and five more family members including a three years old boy have been tested positive for  coronavirus.

“The samples of 12 family members were sent for virology test out of which 11 were earlier tested negative. Resampling of five persons were done whose report was positive for the coronavirus,” he said adding that samples of another 52 persons have been sent for testing.

In Mansa, two women, who had attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in New Delhi last month, have been tested positive. Deputy Commissioner Gurpal Singh said that the two cases were linked to the three others reported earlier from Mansa, and all of them were staying at a mosque in Budhlada.

“They were already under Civil Hospital Mansa isolation, as a precautionary measure. They all have come from Chhattisgarh,” said the state Special Chief Secretary, Punjab Disaster Management (COVID-19), KBS Sidhu adding that the remaining 20 samples of their contacts have come out to be negative.

As many as four residents of Mumbai’s Andheri, who had recently travelled to Punjab via Delhi, were also tested positive for coronavirus on Tuesday. They were neither the jamaatis nor did they attend the Nizamuddin event.

“These are the first COVID-19 cases from the district and contact tracing has been initiated…We have quarantined 13 people staying in a mosque at Chida village as 12 of them have travelled from Andheri to Moga via Delhi and stayed at many places in the state, including Bathinda and Faridkot districts,” said

Moga Civil Surgeon Dr Andesh Kang. He said that the sample reports of 13 people were received on Tuesday in which four men were found positive.

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