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Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, May 7
Covid-19 cases continue to arrive from the Bapu Dham neighborhood in Sector 26 with 12 of the 14 new cases reported from there, bringing the city’s positive case count to 138.
Three positive cases were reported late tonight. Of these, two are members of a family in the Bapu Dham colony, Sector 26, while another case is from Maloya, where a woman tested positive. The Bapu Dham cases were under house quarantine, but the Maloya woman was not, which has worried officials.
A Sector 30 case was reported, which recorded the second highest number of Covid cases after the Bapu Dham Colony. The case of Sector 30 is that of a 12-year-old girl. She is a family contact of positive cases in the same house.
Among the other cases reported by Bapu Dham is a six-year-old boy. It is a community contact of a positive case in the same locality.
He has eight family contacts, all of whom have been sampled. Three other Bapu Dham residents, who tested positive, belong to one family. They are the contacts of positive cases previously reported.
A 36-year-old woman, who tested positive, is a community contact of positive cases in the same town.
Five more Bapu Dham cases were reported. Among them, three belong to a house and are community contacts of positive cases in the town. The remaining two positive cases are family contacts of an already diagnosed positive case.
Meanwhile, several people have been quarantined by the UT quarantine contact and location team. The team said that most of the positive cases were from those who were already in quarantine.
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