Farmers Movement Archive

13 more +ve, 1 dies; Jalandhar tally 188

Jalandhar, May 11With the death of another person due to Covid and 13 persons testing positive in the district today, the total count has risen to 188.With the death of 91-year-old Jandu Singha patient at the CMC, Ludhiana, today, the death toll in the district has risen to six. The 13 new patients reported today include 12 persons from Qazi Mohalla and a 17-year-old boy from Purani Sabzi Mandi. The 12 persons from Qazi Mohalla include three minor girls aged 1.5 years, six years, and nine years. All of them are contacts of the Qazi Mohalla patient who tested positive a few days ago.Notably, the same patient is the source of infection of the doctor tested positive at Guru Nanak Mission Hospital, the four medical staff tested positive at Kidney Hospital and the patients tested positive today at Qazi Mohalla. He had reportedly visited both hospitals.Barring the three children, the other patients who have tested positive today include two women (aged 50 and 35 years) and eight men.One tests +ve in HoshiarpurHoshiarpur: Another person has tested positive in the district on Monday, bringing the total number of active cases to 81. So far, 92 persons have been tested positive of which seven have recovered and four died. Civil Surgeon Jasveer Singh said the patient found positive today was from Tote (Mukerian) village, He had returned from Delhi recently. He had already been quarantined by the Health Department. So far, 1,341 samples had been tested by the department of which 1,148 were negative and reports of 82 samples were yet to be received. As many as 19 samples were found invalid. He said so far four patients have died of Covid and seven have recovered. The recovered patients include a person from the district who was tested positive in Delhi and had been admitted to a hospital there since March. He was discharged from the hospital. The Civil Surgeon said the samples of persons who came in contact with positive patients in the Hardokhanpur, Harkhowal and Kamalpur areas came out negative. — OC13 found positive in Kapurthala Phagwara: As many as 406 suspected cases were examined at the Civil Hospital, Phagwara, till May 10 and the samples of all 406 patients have been sent for testing. Phagwara Senior Medical Officer (SMO) Kamal Kishore said on Sunday that 375 patients out of the 406 examined had tested negative, while 13 had tested positive and five of the positive patients had been isolated on the campus of GNA University. While the other eight had been already sent to the Civil Hospital, Kapurthala. The SMO said the reports of 18 suspected patients was still awaited. They had been quarantined. — OC

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2020-05-12