Punjab: Woman who died two days ago found Covid-19 positive, 6 more positive cases at Mansa

Neel Kamal | TNN | Apr 9, 2020, 20:37 IST

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BATHINDA: A 50-year-woman from Mehal Kalan village in Barnala, who died two days ago at Ludhiana has been found positive of coronavirus. The sample of deceased Karamjit Kaur was collected after her death and report was made public on Thursday evening. Before being admitted at Ludhiana hospital, she was living at her parents’ place at village Pakhowal in Ludhiana. She had complained of high fever and breathlessness due to which she was admitted at Fortis Hospital Ludhiana where she breathed her last on the intervening night of April 7-8. Her husband is away to Guwahati.
After her death, the Ludhiana deputy commissioner has directed the hospital authorities to put the dead body in the mortuary and sample was obtained as she had complained of high fever and breathlessness.
Barnala Civil Surgeon Gurinderbir Singh said that the area where she lived in Mehal Kalan has been contained. The administration is looking into her travel history and the persons who came in her contact.
In the meanwhile, the report of the husband and maid of another woman of Barnala positive of coronavirus is negative whereas the sample of her daughter has been sent again.
In Mansa six more persons have been found positive who had come in contact of the five members of Tablighi Jammat, who were tested positive earlier. The Tablighi Jamaat members had stayed at a mosque at Budhlada town of Mansa after they had come from Delhi on March 19 upon attending Markaj at Delhi. They belonged to Chhattisgarh. Now out of the six persons found positive is a couple, two women and two children, all resident of Budhlada. They have been admitted at Mansa civil hospital in isolation. The areas where they lived in Budhlada have been contained and administration is on contact tracing.