No fresh positive case of Coronavirus (Covid-19) has been reported in the city in the past five days while one more positive patient has recovered and was discharged from the hospital on Friday. The total number of positive cases in Chandigarh now stands at 21, out of which 10 have recovered. The number of active positive cases is 11 while no death has been reported in the city so far.
“The patient that has recovered is the cook of the first Covid-19 positive case of Chandigarh. The cook was tested positive on March 20. The patient has been discharged from PGIMER after getting cured and treated,” said an official spokesman.
Earlier, the first Covid-19 patient, her mother and brother were discharged after getting cured from Coronavirus.
The spokesperson also said that two primary Chandigarh contacts of a positive Covid-19 case at Sector 15, Panchkula who had been sampled t GMSH-16 are found to be negative.
A day before, 17 people living as a joint family in Sector 41 here were traced and put under home quarantine. They were quarantined following contact tracing exercise related to a Sector 15 Panchkula family, in which nine were tested positive for Coronavirus Notably, Chandigarh has been declared a Coronavirus hotspot by the Central Government.
Till Friday evening, a total of 358 samples have been tested so far while the report of one was awaited till the filing of this report. As a precautionary measure, 1741 people have been put in home quarantine, out of which 1338 have completed the quarantine period till Friday evening.