With nine members of a family from neighboring Panchkula districts in Haryana tested positive for Coronavirus, the Chandigarh Administration on Thursday swung into action for contact tracing exercise and identified 17 people in Sector 41 here.
“Till evening, 17 family contacts living as a joint family in Sector 41 here were traced and put under home quarantine. Out of these two are primary contacts of the Panchkula positive cases,” said an official spokesman.
Both these primary contacts have been sampled for Covid-19 at GMSH-16 on Thursday and their results are awaited, the spokesman said.
Nine members of a family from Sector 15 Panchkula were tested positive for Coronavirus, thus taking the district total to 14 till Thursday evening.
Meanwhile, no fresh case of coronavirus has been reported in the city on Thursday. Chandigarh, which is listed as Coronavirus hotspots, has so far reported 21 positive Covid-19 cases, out of which nine have already recovered.
A total of 227 samples have been tested so far while the report of two was awaited till the filing of this report.
As a precautionary measure, 1738 people have been put in home quarantine, out of which 1328 have completed the quarantine period till now.
The first positive case of COVID-19 in the city was reported on March 19.