Mohali: Four people tested positive for novel coronavirus here on Monday, taking the total number of cases to 19.
All are primary contacts of two Covid-19 patients. One of them is the 30-year-old son of the 62-year-old man who had attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Nizamuddin, Delhi. The 62-year-old had tested positive on April 3. He had returned from Delhi on March 17. He is admitted at Gian Sagar Hospital in Banur.
Civil Surgeon Dr Manjit Singh said, “We took samples of all his family members. Only his son tested positive. The reports of the rest came negative.”
The others are the father (67), brother (38) and wife (43) of the 42-year-old former sarpanch of Jawaharpur village in Derabassi who had tested positive two days back. All of them have too are admitted at Gian Sagar Hospital. The former sarpanch, who runs a tent house, had come in contact with a foreman who had attended the Jamaat meet in Delhi on March 31.
The local administration has sealed both the villages from where the cases have been reported. The civil surgeon said, “The new positive cases have been shifted to Gian Sagar Hospital Banur. They are kept in an isolation ward. The earlier positive cases of two women are also in the same hospital. All the patients are stable.”
Out of hospital, city’s first case relishes rajma at home
Chandigarh’s first positive novel coronavirus case and her cook were discharged from Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, Chandigarh, on Monday night. The 23-year-old resident was tested on March 19. She spend 17 days in the hospital. “The first thing I did was to have a proper shower and eat home-made rajmachawal cooked by my mother,” she said. Life has changed for me. I have come to know who all stand by me. I got close to my mother with whom I didn’t spend much time,” she said. “On the first day of my arrival in India, I got fever. I called up the UT helpline to get myself tested. But they ruled out that anything like that. I had to go to the hospital on my own,” she said. Her mother, her brother, cook and a beauty parlour masseur had tested positive. Out of them, three city-based patients have been discharged
Three discharged from Mohali
Three people were cured of Covid-19 and discharged in Mohali on Monday. They are Mohali’s first positive case (69-year-old NRI woman), her 74-year-old sister and an 81-year-old woman. All were undergoing treatment at a private hospital. They were sent home after their two consecutive tests came negative, said a doctor. On Saturday, a 42-year-old man who had returned from the UK was discharged from Government Multi-specialty Hospital, Sector 16, Chandigarh. He was admitted on March 19
All are primary contacts of two Covid-19 patients. One of them is the 30-year-old son of the 62-year-old man who had attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Nizamuddin, Delhi. The 62-year-old had tested positive on April 3. He had returned from Delhi on March 17. He is admitted at Gian Sagar Hospital in Banur.
Civil Surgeon Dr Manjit Singh said, “We took samples of all his family members. Only his son tested positive. The reports of the rest came negative.”
The others are the father (67), brother (38) and wife (43) of the 42-year-old former sarpanch of Jawaharpur village in Derabassi who had tested positive two days back. All of them have too are admitted at Gian Sagar Hospital. The former sarpanch, who runs a tent house, had come in contact with a foreman who had attended the Jamaat meet in Delhi on March 31.
The local administration has sealed both the villages from where the cases have been reported. The civil surgeon said, “The new positive cases have been shifted to Gian Sagar Hospital Banur. They are kept in an isolation ward. The earlier positive cases of two women are also in the same hospital. All the patients are stable.”
Out of hospital, city’s first case relishes rajma at home
Chandigarh’s first positive novel coronavirus case and her cook were discharged from Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, Chandigarh, on Monday night. The 23-year-old resident was tested on March 19. She spend 17 days in the hospital. “The first thing I did was to have a proper shower and eat home-made rajmachawal cooked by my mother,” she said. Life has changed for me. I have come to know who all stand by me. I got close to my mother with whom I didn’t spend much time,” she said. “On the first day of my arrival in India, I got fever. I called up the UT helpline to get myself tested. But they ruled out that anything like that. I had to go to the hospital on my own,” she said. Her mother, her brother, cook and a beauty parlour masseur had tested positive. Out of them, three city-based patients have been discharged
Three discharged from Mohali
Three people were cured of Covid-19 and discharged in Mohali on Monday. They are Mohali’s first positive case (69-year-old NRI woman), her 74-year-old sister and an 81-year-old woman. All were undergoing treatment at a private hospital. They were sent home after their two consecutive tests came negative, said a doctor. On Saturday, a 42-year-old man who had returned from the UK was discharged from Government Multi-specialty Hospital, Sector 16, Chandigarh. He was admitted on March 19
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