Patiala District records highest Covid cases in a day

Tribune News Service

Patiala, March 12

After a gap of five months, in what can be termed as highest single day spike, the district reported 152 positive coronavirus cases today. These positive cases include 12 schoolchildren. With this, the total count of Covid cases in the district has risen to 18, 238 since the pandemic outbreak last year.

Of the 152 positive cases detected today, only 29 were contacts of the past positive patients while 123 were reported from hospital OPDs afresh. The district has been witnessing a sudden surge in the number of coronavirus cases over the past week.

The Patiala Civil Surgeon, Dr Satinder Singh, said the city today reported 94 cases, while Rajpura 18, Harapalpur 10, Shutrana seven, Dudhan Sadhan five and from Nabha five. Besides, five positive cases were detected in Kauli and three in Bhadson.

Of the 12 Covid positive schoolchildren, seven were students of the Government Senior Secondary for Girls, Ghanaur, while five were from the Government School, Arno village.Following this, the number of active cases in the district has now touched 1,001.

“The rise in the number of positive cases is very steep. People should realise that it is an alarming situation. Therefore, they should start taking Covid precautions,” Dr Satinder Singh added.

The district epidemiologist, Dr Sumeet Singh, said after detection of six positive cases, the Ram Bhag area was declared a new micro-containment zone today.