57 catch the infection in Chandigarh

CHANDIGARH: Chandigarh recorded 57 new Covid-19 positive cases on Thursday. With this, the city case count has increased to 1,327, including 529 active ones and 20 deaths. As many as 62 patients were discharged on the day.
The positive cases are from Manimajra, Burail, Behlana, Dadumajra, Ramdarbar, Dhanas, Bapudham Colony, Maloya, sectors 45, 34, 46, 22, 41, 38, 52, 32, 24, 43, 19, 63, 40, 30, 63, 8, 26, and 44.
UT’s singing traffic cop down with the disease
UT traffic assistant sub-inspector Bhupinder Singh, who created awareness about the use of masks and sanitizers by singing Punjabi songs, tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday.
The ASI, who is deployed at the Children Traffic Park (CTP), Sector 23, has been quarantined at home and his condition is stated to be stable.
Manoj Meena, SP (traffic), said, “Bhupinder had been on training at Police Lines in Sector 26 since July14 and was not going to CTP. However, the police department has sanitized the entire premises of CTP as a precautionary measure.”
Four cops, who came in his contact, have been put under isolation.
The ASI was part of the Road Safety Education Team of Chandigarh traffic police and organised 119 exhibitions and made more than 23,000 city residents aware about the Covid-19 preventive measures by singing Punjabi songs in different sectors since May.
A traffic police team led by Bhupinder, who is also known as the singing cop of UT police, has visited almost every sector and housing society to create awareness.
Talking to the TOI, Bhupinder said he himself wrote Punjabi songs on coronavirus. Fourteen UT cops have tested positive till date.