201 cases! Highest single-day spike ever in Jalandhar

Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, August 17

The district witnessed the highest single-day spike ever with 201 patients testing positive for Covid-19 on Monday.

While 201 people tested positive in the district, seven were from other districts, taking the tally of positive cases to 218. From 4,057 cases on Sunday, the cases shot up to 4,258 on Monday. With three more Covid deaths, the toll also increased to 111 in the district.

4 new cases in Hoshiarpur

Four new Covid-19 positive cases including two from Jalandhar and two from Amritsar were reported in the district on Monday. With this, the number of positive cases increased to 854. Civil Surgeon Dr Jasvir Singh said 42,243 samples have been taken in the district so far of which 38,121 samples tested negative. On Monday, 1,074 samples were taken. There are 132 active cases in the district so far and 697 patients have been cured. He appealed to pregnant women and children up to 10 years to stay home to help prevent the spread of the disease. OC

The deceased include a 60-year-old man who died at the DMCH in Ludhiana, a 44-year-old man from Nangal village in Phillaur, who died at the Civil Hospital, Ludhiana, and a 37-year-old man from Raseela Nagar.

Doctors said the increased co-morbidities among the people of the district have also given way to increase in cases. Interestingly, doctors said the 37-year-old man from Raseela Nagar, who died on Monday, did not have any co-morbidity as per his family. This makes him the youngest man, without any co-morbidity, to die in the district.

Those who tested positive on Monday are people from Kusht Ashram (Leper’s Colony) Jalandhar, Phillaur police station and Sarih village among other areas.

Areas from where people tested positive, include Phillaur, Nakodar, Lohian Khas, Model Town, Lajpat Nagar, Garha and Sheikhan Bazaar among others.

In the past few days, Covid has hit various privileged people as well. Dozens of police personnel, the nephew of a senior BJP leader, several employees of the Civil Hospital are among those, who have tested positive. The Nodal officer at Jalandhar also tested positive for Covid recently, and a couple of Civil Hospital employees are also among those who tested positive.

As many as 10 deaths have been reported in the past 24 hours. With 3,222 cases on August 10, there has been an over 1,000 case pile up in the past week with cases rising to 4,258 today.

Meanwhile, 27 people tested positive for Covid-19 in Kapurthala on Monday.