14 more catch virus in Chandigarh
Chandigarh, July 21
The city today reported 14 new cases of Covid, taking the virus count of the Union Territory to 751.
Five of the 14 new patients were hospital employees. While four of them work at the PGI, the other was from the GMCH, Sector 32. Three female nursing officers of the PGI, who are residents of Sector 15, were found positive for Covid.
Two of them are aged 25 and the third 26. A 28-year-old doctor of the PGI too contracted the infection. He is a resident of Sector 9. Two more nurses have been found positive at the PGI. They are residents of Punjab.
A 25-year-old woman, working at the GMCH, tested positive for the infection. She is a contact of an already positive case reported from the hospital.
Six others to test positive are contacts of previously diagnosed cases. Two women, aged 45 and 66, from Daria and a one-and-a-half-year-old girl, an 11 year-old girl, and two women, aged 66 and 32, from Sector 41 contracted the virus.
Besides, a 31-year-old man from Behlana, a nine-year-old boy from Sector 29 and a 72-year-old man from Sector 9 tested positive for the virus. Their source of infection is not known.
