Chandigarh: 350 contacts traced, isolated at home

Deepak Yadav | TNN | Updated: Apr 28, 2020, 07:11 IST

A health team at the house of a junior doctor

CHANDIGARH: The municipal corporation (MC) has home quarantined 350 contacts of the 15 people who tested positive for coronavirus on Sunday and Monday.
On Sunday night, the civic body quarantined 15 contacts of the male nurse of Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32. He was living in a rented accommodation with four others in Sector 32. All of them along with members of a shop from where the nurse used to buy essential items and of a mess in the hospital were quarantined.
On Monday morning, cops sealed the locality in Sector 32. “The man belongs to Sikar district of Rajasthan. He has been residing in the rented accommodation for seven months. He is a bachelor,” sources said.
After five family members of the Bapu Dham Colony resident, who used to work in GMCH, were found positive, their 190 contacts have been quarantined in different places. Besides, 30 contacts of one of the neighbours of the Bapu Dham Colony resident who was found positive were also home quarantined.
Moreover, as two doctors of GMCH were found positive on Monday, teams of the MC visited th