One more positive Coronavirus case was reported in the city on Monday taking the total number to 27 in the city.

“A 82 years old lady admitted at Alchemist, Panchkula was sampled at Civil hospital Sector 6, Panchkula for Coronavirus and she has been tested positive. She had been residing at Sector 18, Chandigarh and Sector 12, Panchkula,” said an official spokesman.

The spokesman said that the contact tracing exercise has begun to identify the high-risk contacts, primary and others contacts besides finding the source of infection.

The spokesman also said that a 23 years old male resident of Sector 30, who was the contact of positive Covid-19 case of the same Sector 30 with a history of return from Dubai has been cured and discharged from PGIMER on Monday. With this, the active positive cases in the city now stand at 13.

Giving details of contact tracing of Sector 30 positive case of a female resident, the spokesman said that amongst family contacts, two children aged 16 years and 13 years , belonging to Sector 30 who are the contacts of a one and half year old Covid-19 positive case are being sampled at GMSH sector 16. A community contact who is residing in sector 21 has been sampled at PGIMER.

Only a day before, three new  Covid-19 positive cases were diagnosed in the city. They were family contacts of Covid-19 positive case of Sector 30 female and included her 56 years old husband, 25 years old son and a one-and-a-half year granddaughter.

Elaborating about the ongoing contact tracing related to Dhanas positive case, the spokesman said that all seven household contacts of the positive Covid 19 case of Dhanas have turned out to be negative. All the eight remote community contacts of the positive case who were working in a dairy at Dhanas are also reported to be negative.

The Dhanas resident is a sanitary attendant at PGIMER and was tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday.