Septuagenarian falls victim to virus, dist toll reaches 59
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Septuagenarian falls victim to virus, dist toll reaches 59
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Tribune News ServiceAmritsar, July 16With the death of a septuagenarian from Covid-19, the district toll reached 59 on Thursday. The deceased has been identified as 75-year-old Piyara Singh of Gobind Nagar on the Sultanwind road. According to the health authorities, Piyara was being treated at Government Medical College and was a known case of hypertension.The district also reported 23 new cases in the past 24-hours, taking the total count of Covid patients to 1,170. Of the new cases, 20 are persons with influenza like illness (ILI) and three are contacts of Covid patients.One ILI case each has been reported from Chehharta, Chabba, Damganj, Jaspal Nagar, Shashtari Nagar, Majitha Road, Othiyan, Krishna Nagar, Hathi Gate, Krishna Lane, New Azad Nagar (Kot Khalsa), Police Lines, Tuta Wala Bazaar, Varindavan Enclave, Circular Road, Rajiv Gandhi Nagar, Rakh Devidas Pura, Lakkar Mandi, Bhagtanwala and Verka. One contact of a Covid patient from Raghunathpura and two contacts from Shareefpura tested positive. A total of 12 patients were discharged after recovery. With this, the number of persons who managed to defeat the virus reached 955. The district had 156 active cases on Thursday.Meanwhile, Government Medical College here has stopped operations of MRI and CT scan machines after an elderly woman, who had got scanned by the machines, tested positive for Covid. The authorities said the machines had been sealed for three days for sanitisation. Ban on gathering of more than four
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The Tribune
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2020-07-17