4 more from Chandigarh fall prey to virus

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 31

Four more Covid deaths were reported from the city today, taking the toll to 56. Besides, 191 fresh cases were reported, raising the tally to 4,346. The tally of active cases now stands at 1,857. As many as 135 patients were discharged.

Home Guards volunteer tests +ve

Chandigarh: A Home Guards volunteer of the UT police tested positive for Covid. The volunteer is posted at the Public Window, Police Headquarters, Sector 9. Sources said the staff working with the volunteer were asked to quarantine themselves. Meanwhile, the Police Headquarters was sanitised. TNS

All four persons who died of the virus were aged over 50. Three of them had comorbidities. A 62-year-old man from Ram Darbar, a case of hypertension, Type 2 diabetes mellitus and hypothyroidism, had tested Covid positive. He died at the GMCH, Sector 32. A 50-year-old man from Mani Majra, a known case of Type 2 diabetes mellitus and hypertension, had tested positive for the virus and died at the GMCH.

A 50-year-old man from Sector 38, who had a history of pulmonary TB, had tested positive and died at the GMCH today. A 78-year-old woman from Sector 34 died at Fortis Hospital today.

Among the fresh cases, 154 were conducted through the RT-PCR method.