8 deaths in Mohali, toll goes past 100

Mohali, September 6

Eight deaths and 215 new cases of Covid-19 were reported from Mohali district today. With fresh fatalities, the district toll touched 107. Besides, 96 patients have been discharged from various hospitals in the last 24 hours.

As many as six fatalities of the day were reported from the GMCH in Patiala. Those died were as 65-year-old man from Nayagaon, a 71-year-old man from Sunny Enclave, a 64-year-old woman from Phase II, a 60-year-old diabetic and hypertensive man from Kurali, a 41-year-old man from Mohali and a 45-year-old woman from Mubarikpur.

A 57-year-old man from Nayagaon died at the GMCH in Sector 32, Chandigarh. He was also suffering from hypertension. A 55-year-old woman from Kharar breathed her last at the PGI.

The fresh cases reported today belonged to Mohali urban (87), Dhakoli (42), Kharar (36), Gharuan (33), Dera Bassi (11), Boothgarh (two), Banur (two) and Kurali (two).

Don’t entertain customers sans mask, shopkeepers told

The food safety team of the Health Department visited the sweets and grocery shops in Nayagaon. District Health Officer Subhash Sharma and his team instructed the shopkeepers there that goods should not be sold to customers who have not covered their faces. The official also checked the quality of food items at various shops and destroyed the substandard and expired items. — TNS