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62-yr-old loses Covid battle in Amritsar

Amritsar, July 20With 28 more persons in the district testing positive for Covid-19 on Monday, the total count of positive cases reached 1,300. The district also reported the death of a 62-year-old patient admitted at Sri Guru Ram Das Hospital. The deceased, identified as Balbir Singh of Sultanwind village, was also a known case of hypertension. The toll due to Covid reached 64 on Monday.Of the new cases reported by the Health Department, 19 are persons with influenza like illness (ILI) while nine are contacts of Covid patients. One ILI case each has been reported from Dhianpur (Baba Bakala), Dolonangal village, Chabba village, Raipur (Ajnala), Jafarkot (Ajnala), Fatahpur, Radha Soami Road (backside Gandhi Ground), Gopal Nagar, New Kot Atma Ram, Maha Singh Gate, Guru Gobind Singh Nagar, Division B police station area, Chackbala Jagdev Khurd, Fatehgarh Churian Road, Krishna Nagar and ITC Company on Jail Road and two patients were reported from Loon Mandi.Three contacts of Covid patients from Sahibjada Fateh Singh Colony, three from Bhawani Nagar (Majitha Road), and one each from Green Avenue, Krishna Nagar and Green Field (Majitha Road) also tested positive.Civil Surgeon Navdeep Singh said of the new cases, 20 patients are from the city and the rest are from the rural areas. He said a total of 38,766 persons have been tested in the district so far.The Civil Surgeon said there were 244 active patients in the district who were undergoing treatment at various hospitals. He said 16 patients at different hospitals were on oxygen support and 17 were on ventilator support. He said a total of 964 patients were tested in the past 24 hours, adding that efforts were being made to increase testing.

The Tribune

2020-07-21