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Jalandhar sees biggest single-day spike of 82 cases, tally 489

Tribune News ServiceJalandhar, June 19With 82 persons testing positive for Covid in the district today, the tally has reached 489 (from 418 yesterday).This is the single-largest spike in a district of the state during the pandemic. Jalandhar had been witnessing a dramatic rise in the Covid cases this month so far. Merely at 300 cases on June 7, the count reached 100 on June 17 when cases crossed 400 and within two days, several positive cases brought the tally to 489 today.The majority of the cases reported today came positive as a result of random sampling carried out in various areas by health teams.Experts said with several cases testing positive during random sampling, community spread of the virus was evident in the district.Notably, the district has also witnessed a rapid increase in cases since the lockdown was relaxed and containment zone norms revised.The new cases include those with travel history and a number of cases who are contacts of previous positive cases. The 82 patients include people from Kandola Khurd, Bilga Nagra, New Gobind Nagar, Surat Nagar, Maqsudan, Sainik Vihar, Buta Mandi, Kavya Colony, Pakka Bagh, Dharampura, Ranjit Nagar, Santokhpura, Talwandi Sanghera, DiwaIi village, Shahkot, Basti Sheikh, New Adarsh Nagar, Friends Colony and Phillaur.A Jalandhar-based school and a hospital have also been formally listed in addresses where people have tested positive. The district previously saw major spikes of 32 and 31 cases on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively.Mystery over another Covid deathWhile a 30-year-old woman was the 14th casualty reported in the district, the Health Department has observed silence on another death of a 50-year-old man, who died of Covid few days ago. However, the department is not counting this as a Covid death formally since there is no formal intimation so far.Five fresh +ve cases take Hoshiarpur dist count to 156Five new Covid-19 positive cases have been detected in the district on Friday. The Civil Surgeon, Dr Jasbir Singh said out of these, 4 persons belonged to Health Block, Posi, under the Garhshankar subdivision, while one case was from Health Block, Hajipur. Of these, 3 cases were those who had returned from other states, while two were contacts of the patients who were found positive earlier.With this, the number of Covid-19 positive cases in the district has become 156. With 516 samples collected in the district on Friday, the total number of samples collected in the district has become 9,437. Of these, 7,814 have been found negative, while the reports of 1,445 samples is awaited. A total of 26 samples have been found invalid, 5 patients have died and there are 17 active cases in the district.One dies, five new cases in KapurthalaKapurthala: Five new coronavirus cases were reported in Kapurthala on Friday. A woman died of Covid in the district. The five new cases are relatives of a Kapurthala patient, who died at the PGI, Chandigarh, on Friday.

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2020-06-20