Covid: Four more taken ill in Mohali

Mohali, June 27

Four new cases of Covid were reported from the district today, raising its tally to 246.

They are a 24-year-old woman from Naba village, a 26 year-old woman from Dharamgarh village, a 22-year-old youth from Mubarakpur village and a 51-year-old man from Phase 3A.

Civil Surgeon Manjit Singh said the two women were delivery cases and admitted to the GMCH, Sector 32, Chandigarh.

The Phase 3A resident is in merchant navy and has travelled to several countries. The youth is a case of influenza-like illness. They both were admitted to the Covid care centre at Gian Sagar Hospital in Banur.

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The Civil Surgeon said six patients had been cured and were discharged from the hospital today. He said a 34-year-old woman from Dera Bassi, a 14-year-old girl and a 40-year-old man, both residents of Kurali, two men, aged 54 and 52, who were residents of Sector 116 and 91, respectively, and a 42-year-old man from Baltana had defeated the virus.

He said at present, there were 52 active Covid cases in the district while 191 had been cured and three died of the disease.

The Civil Surgeon said he, along with health teams, today went to three micro-containment zones — Harmilap Nagar, Baltana and Bahera villages — and Sector 91 from where a number of infections were reported recently. He said the street in Harmilap Nagar from where the cases were reported had been completely closed and the police, along with health teams, were deployed there.

He said they had ordered random sampling of all workers of the meat factory at Behra village, whose five women workers were found positive for the virus, to check the spread of the disease. — TNS