Some relief: No death in past 2 days; 26 new cases in Amritsar district

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, July 22

With 26 new cases on Wednesday, the district Covid-19 tally reached 1,360. The new cases include 19 persons with influenza-like illness (ILI) and seven contacts of Covid patients. In what could be termed as a return towards normalcy, the district reported no deaths in the past two days. A total of 273 active cases are admitted at various hospitals in the district.

One ILI case each was reported from Guru Nagar (Verka), Ram Dawali Village (Majitha), Shaheed Udham Singh Nagar, Guru Ramdass Avenue, Fatehgarh Churrian Road, Green Avenue, Ajnala, Guru Teg Bahadur Colony (Baba Bakala), Guru Ram Das Nagar, Gopal Nagar, Mustafabad, Wadala, Navi Abaadi, Mahindra Colony, Police Lines, Ranjit Avenue, Chaura Bazar (Gate Hakeema) and the Railways workshop.

One contact of Covid patient each from Green Field and 88 Battalion of the BSF posted at Khasa, two from Shareefpura and three contacts from IVY Hospital tested positive for the disease.

The district health authorities stated that 13 patients were discharged from hospitals on Wednesday, taking the count of recovered persons to 1,023.

Meanwhile the Deputy Commissioner (DC), Shivdular Singh Dhillon, appealed to the public to cooperate with the mobile teams visiting their areas to collecting swab samples. The DC said in some areas, residents were not cooperating, which was defeating the purpose of extensive testing. He said people could voluntarily give samples so that early intervention could help in containing the virus.