Tribune Reporters

Jalandhar, August 10

Just two weeks after the schools were re-opened, the reporting of cases of Covid-19 in a government school of Nawanshahr on Tuesday led to panic among the parents.

After a random sampling by health teams in schools of Nawanshahr, two students from Government Senior Secondary School, Saroya, tested positive for the virus. The two students are from Classes VI and VII. The school, which has a strength of 400 students, was immediately ordered to close for the next 14 days on the orders of DEO Jagjit Singh. A total of 1,274 samples were reportedly taken from Nawanshahr, most of them from government schools.

The district had been reporting nil detection of Covid cases since the last over a fortnight and the sudden emergence of two cases has again brought the health teams on their toes. The officials asked the health teams to do contact tracing, test more students and their family members and try to contain the infection by stepping up all efforts. After the discharge of one patient, only one active case was left in the district when the fresh emergence of cases in the school got reported.

In Jalandhar, five new cases were reported. These cases are being reported from Ajtana village in Nurmahal which is the new containment zone in the district. Four patients were also discharged. With this, the total active cases in the district now stand at 30 and total cases since March 2020 stands at 63,158.

In Kapurthala, one new positive case was reported. Six patients got discharged bringing down the active cases to 15. A total of 17,767 cases have been reported so far in the district.

Hoshiarpur reported a fatality due to Covid-19. The death toll in the district has reached 978. There are 18 active cases in the district after the discharge of one patient. Two new cases were on Tuesday reported from the district.