12 more found Covid +ve, Chanda patient count 162

Chandrapur: Twelve new Covid-19 patients were detected in Chandrapur on Friday taking the total number of cases to 162. Five of them had contracted the infection during a marriage ceremony, health department has informed.
Officials claimed four positive patients from Chandrapur city belong to Bhanapeth, Indira Nagar and Dadmahal wards. Bhanapeth resident 29-year-old had returned from Hyderabad. Indira Nagar resident 21-year-old woman and Dadmahal ward resident 21-year-old woman had returned from Hyderabad and Jalgaon, respectively. Two others including 21-year-old Secunderabad-returnee and 45-year-old Patna-returnee too have been detected positive. They all were in institutional quarantine.
Four Covid patients have been detected in Somthana village in Warora tehsil. They all belong to a family and had participated in a marriage ceremony at Jalna. Another person from Bhadrawati town, who too had attended the marriage, has also been detected positive. A 27-year-old from Warora, who had returned from Madhya Pradesh, has also been found Covid positive.
A seven-year-old boy from Ballarpur town has tested Covid positive. A family of five, including the seven-year-old, had returned from Mumbai in a car. Other four travellers, however, tested negative for Covid infection.
As on Friday, health department has treated and discharged 93 Covid-19 patients. There are 69 patients under treatment in the district.