Chandigarh reports biggest single-day spike with 31 fresh infections
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, July 18
A 55-year-old woman of Ram Darbar tested positive for Covid post-death, raising the UT toll to 12. The city also recorded its biggest single-day spike in cases today with 31 persons being found infected with the virus. Earlier, the biggest jump in Covid count was reported on July 13 when 29 fresh cases were reported from the UT.
The Ram Darbar woman was brought dead at the GMCH-32 on July 16. She was sampled and has tested positive for Covid. She had undergone abdominal surgery a few years ago. She developed a severe abdominal pain for which she was taken to the GMCH-32.
Among the fresh cases, three were reported from the PGI. Two men, aged 64 and 58, who live on the PGI campus, and a 42-year-old staffer, who lives in Sector 37, were found infected with the virus. While the PGI residents are contacts of a previously positive case of the hospital, there is no confirmation about the source of infection in case of the Sector 37 resident, a nursing officer posted in the Blood Bank. He has been placed under home isolation. The 58-year-old is an electrical technician with the engineering department of the PGI.
A 58-years-old man from Mani Majra and an 11-year-old girl of Sector 44 also tested positive for Covid. Three members of a family residing in Sector 25 too contracted the virus. They are a 55-year-old woman, an 11-year-old girl and a 13-year-old boy.
In Sector 29, six persons of a family had contracted the virus. They are two men, aged 45 and 60, two youths, aged 26 and 22, and two women, aged 45 and 55.
Four persons living in a house at Sector 32 also tested positive for Covid. They are an 18-year-old girl, a 21-year-old woman, an 18-year-old boy and a 40-year-old man.
Three members of a family residing in Sector 27 — a 22-year-old youth, a 62-year-old woman and a one-year-old girl — too tested positive for the virus.
A 37-year-old man and a 50-year-old woman of Dhanas, two women of Ram Darbar, aged 40 and 68, a 69-year-old man of Sector 35, two men of Sector 41, aged 36 and 59, a 52-year-old man of Sector 33 and a 68-year-old man of Daria were the other patients.
Most of the cases are family contacts of previously diagnosed patients.
Over a rise in the Covid cases, UT Health Secretary Arun Gupta said testing had increased. He added that people were not caring about social distancing and since markets had opened, contacts had increased.
Five recover
Five patients defeated the virus and were discharged from different health facilities in the city. They recuperated at the PGI, Sood Dharamshala and Shri Dhanwantry Ayurvedic College and Hospital.
