60-year-old man dies of Covid-19 in Sangrur; toll reaches 4

PATIALA: A sixty-year-old man from Malerkotla division of Sangrur district succumbed to Covid-19 in the wee hours on Tuesday taking the death toll to four in the district. The deceased was a retired general manager of Pepsu Road Transport Corporation (PRTC). However, the health officials could not locate his source of infection so far.
Health authorities revealed that the 60-year-old man was already suffering from Parkinsonism, hypertension and diabetes mellitus type 2 and had gone for a check-up at DMC Hospital in Ludhiana on June 9, where his sample for Covid-19 was also taken for testing.
The officials claimed that he had returned back home after availing OPD services at DMCH Ludhiana next day but had tested positive in his sampling reports following which he was immediately shifted to Covid care centre at Ghabdan in Sangrur. The health authorities traced out contacts of the 60-year-old man and collected samples of his family members of which six reported negative while three tested positive for the infection.
“We have traced out family contacts of the deceased when he had tested positive of the virus. Among his contacts, we took samples of nine members of his family of which his two sons aged 34 and 48-years-old reported positive. Besides, a 78-year-old mother of the deceased man had also tested positive whereas six other contacts reported negative. All positive are undergoing treatment at Covid care centres. The deceased did not have any travel history and his source of infection is unknown," said Dr Ravinder Kaler, district family officer.
So far, the health department in Sangrur had collected 9,115 samples of which 8,357 tested negative and 164 reported positive for Covid-19 infection, whereas 46 cases are active and 114 people have been cured and sent back home. Four persons have died so far while the sample reports of around 594 cases are pending.