Punjab
Chandigarh: The number of coronavirus patients continued to surge in Punjab with two more persons testing positive for the infection, taking total cases to 33 in the state.
Among fresh cases, a woman, a resident of Nawanshahr, contracted infection from already positive patient while a Jalandhar resident, who had visited aborad recently, also tested positive and admitted to Ludhiana hospital, according to an official media bulletin.
The health authorities have collected 722 samples so far, of which 346 were found negative for the coronavirus infection, the bulletin said.
The result of 376 samples was still awaited.
In Punjab, there were 19 positive cases in Nawanshahr, five in Mohali, four in Jalandhar, three in Hoshiarpur and one each in Amritsar and Ludhiana, as per the bulletin.
Out of them, one person, tested positive in Nawanshahr, had died.
All remaining 32 cases have been under hospital isolation and they were stable, said the bulletin.
Close contacts of these cases have also been put under quarantine and surveillance, it said.
Madhya Pradesh
Bhopal/Shivpuri: The number of COVID-19 cases in Madhya Pradesh rose to 21 with six more patients - five in Indore and one in Shivpur - testing coronavirus positive on Thursday, health officials said.
The tally includes a Ujjain-based woman, who died on Wednesday in Indore, the officials said.
Among the five new cases in Indore, two are women, a government medical college spokesman said.
Shivpuri district reported its second COVID-19 case.
Shivpuris Chief Medical and Health Officer (CMHO) Dr A L Sharma said a 26-year man, a resident of Khaniyadhana, about 80-km from the district headquarters, tested positive for the infection on Thursday.
The man had gone to Hyderabad on March 13 and returned to Shivpuri two days later, he said.
Sharma said family members of the coronavirus positive man have been told to quarantine themselves at home and they will be monitored by health workers.
Besides, the residents of the mans colony have been also told to self-quarantine under medical supervision, he said.
Earlier, the infected man had sought medical help through a video on social media. Following this, the health department kept him in the isolation ward of a government hospital.
Sharma also informed that the mother and father of a 30-year man, the first coronavirus positive case in Shivpuri, tested negative in the medical reports received on Thursday.
Earlier in the day, five more patients admitted in Indore hospitals tested coronavirus positive, health officials said on Thursday.
Besides the death of a COVID-19 positive person, a 47-year-old man, who was admitted to a government hospital here as a coronavirus suspect, also died in the wee hours of Thursday.
The 47-year old man, whose test report is still awaited, was earlier treated at the Ujjain civil hospital and was admitted to the Indore hospital on Wednesday with cough, fever and trouble in breathing, the officials said.
So far, 10 coronavirus cases have been reported in Indore (including deceased woman of Ujjain), six in Jabalpur, two each in Bhopal and Shivpuri and one in Gwalior, they said.
Curfew has been imposed in seven districts linked to coronavirus positive cases.
Hey include Bhopal, Indore, Jabalpur, Gwalior, Shivpuri, Ujjain and Chhatarpur.
No positive case has been found so far in Chhatarpur but the COVID-19 patient from Gwalior had travelled to Khajuraho in Chhatarpur, they said.
As a result, curfew was clamped in Rajnagar and Khajuraho towns of Chhatarpur district, officials said.
Haryana
Chandigarh: One more person from Haryana's Panipat district tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday, taking the total number of COVID-19 cases in the state to 18, officials said.
The total number of positive cases from Panipat have reached three, the state's health department said.
The number of positive cases reported from Gurugram stand at 10, two cases are from Faridabad and one each has been reported from Palwal, Panchkula and Sonipat.
The test reports of 120 samples are still awaited.
Earlier, a 21-year-old nurse from Panipat, who works in a private hospital in Gurugram, had tested positive for coronavirus.
The nurse had travelled to her hometown Panipat over a week ago from Gurugram.