Eighty-two of these cases are those who had recently entered the state either from Hazur Sahib or Kota. It is the highest number of cases reported in a single day since the first case reported on March 5.
As per the state media bulletin, the total count has reached 480 now.
The fresh cases include 34 from Ludhiana, 28 from Amritsar, 13 from SAS Nagar, seven from Tarn Taran, 6 from Kapurthala, three each from Muktsar, Gurdaspur, Jalandhar, two each from Sangrur and Ropar and one each from SBS Nagar, Ferozepur, Patiala and Moga.
All these persons are pilgrims who have returned from Nanded’s Sri Hazur Sahib. A total of 41 pilgrims who returned back from Nanded have tested positive in Ludhiana district. The first batch was sent home and then called back and was quarantined and their samples were collected and the pilgrims who came back yesterday were directly taken to quarantine centres and samples were collected.
Apart from that Amritsar district also witnessed highest cases in a single day as 23 fresh cases were reported. With this the positive patient count in district has increased to 37 from the previous count of 14.
The district officials stated that all the new positive cases had returned from Sri Hazur Sahib in Nanded (Maharashtra) and were quarantined at different isolation centres here.
The district has so far received around 600 persons who were stranded at different places outside Punjab due to the lockdown. The health authorities stated that samples of remaining persons at quarantine centres are also being collected.
Meanwhile, for Tarn Taran, with seven new positive cases today, the Covid-19 count has doubled to 15. Except for a pregnant woman who had given birth to a child at Sursingh all the patients are returnees from Nanded.
Sursingh village in the district has emerged as a major hotspot and reported a total of seven cases so far.
With three fresh cases, including a 45-year-old man from Nanded Sahib testing positive in the district, the total number of cases in Jalandhar has reached 89. The three persons include a 45-year-old resident of Bakkarpur village in Phillaur who returned from Nanded Sahib, a 30-year-old male patient from Qazi Mohalla currently admitted at PGI-Chandigarh and 32-year-old man from Sant Nagar – a contact of the man who had previously tested positive from Sant Nagar.
A total 190 people who returned from travels across various places, have been kept at an isolation unit at the Meritorious School in Jalandhar.
Meanwhile, at Kapurthala today, four people tested positive – taking the district tally to 12. They include four men aged 27, 55, 50 years – all Phagwara residents, who returned from Nanded Sahib, and a 22-year-old person who returned from Delhi and reported at the flu corner for random sampling.
In Ropar, after a gap of 25 days the district has again witnessed two fresh cases, both had returned from Nanded on April 26. Both the patients are admitted in isolation ward of local civil hospital.
As per the health department, so far samples of 21,205 suspected cases were sent for testing. Of them, 17,826 samples were found negative and reports of 3439 were still awaited.
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