3 of Sector 21 family among 9 tested coronavirus positive in Panchkula

Tribune News Service

Panchkula, June 9

Nine new cases of coronavirus positive surfaced in Panchkula district on Tuesday taking the tally to 44.

According to authorities, two cases were reported on Monday night, while nine cases were confirmed on Tuesday morning.

Four cases have been reported from Kalka, one each from Sector 17 and Sector 6, while three cases from a family were reported from Sector 21.

The wife of the lawyer, a resident of Army society in Sector 20, who had tested positive after returning from Delhi, has also tested positive.

Sector 12-A’s 46-year-old resident had come in contact with a coronavirus-affected person from Dhakoli in Zirakpur.

All of them have been admitted to the isolation ward of the Civil Hospital in Sector 6. Their family members have been home-quarantined.

Health teams have started tracing the contacts of the affected people.

Meanwhile, Deputy Commissioner Mukesh Kumar Ahuja announced Sector 20’s Army society, Friends Colony in Kalka and Abdulpur as containment zones while the adjoining areas have been declared buffer zones.