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Naina Mishra
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, May 9
The city recorded its third Covid death today.
The deceased, a 62-year-old man from the Bapu Dham colony, was admitted to the GMCH, Sector 32, on Thursday. She had a history of heart disease and loose stools for the past four days.
According to health authorities, he died on Saturday morning, after which his samples were taken for the Covid test. The body was packed and delivered to his relatives as a positive case while taking all precautions, as the test report was pending.
The sample report was positive later in the day. The man lived near the Covid cases in the colony.
Meanwhile, the city recorded the largest Covid case jump today, as 21 people, including the 62-year-old deceased, tested positive for the virus. The new cases have been reported by Bapu Dham Colony, Covid’s hotbed in the city. Four of them are community contacts of already diagnosed patients and 17 family contacts of a positive case in the same area.
The city’s total count today was 170. With 21 new cases, Bapu Dham crossed the 100 mark today. Now the number of positive cases in the colony is 107, which is 62 percent of the total cases in the city.
At least 77 percent of the 140 positive cases reported between April 24 and May 9 in the city are from Bapu Dham. The second highest peak in cases was reported on May 7, when 14 people tested positive for the virus. Twelve of them were from Bapu Dham.
Highest positivity rate: 8.2 percent
Covid’s positivity rate increased significantly this week. From 6 percent on May 4, the city posted a high positivity rate of 8.2 percent on Saturday. The positivity rate is the number of cases against every 100 samples taken for the Covid test. For every lakh of people in the city, 14 are positive for Covid.
There is an increase in the positivity rate as more samples are analyzed in the city lately. On Saturday, 142 samples were taken for analysis, one of the highest samples taken in one day.
Hallo Majra’s dead man had a link to Bapu Dham
The 35-year-old Hallo Majra man, who died Friday, lived alone in a rented room. He was an alcoholic and suffered from chronic liver disease. He received treatment from two public health facilities. He presented with loose stools, severe anemia in the hospital, and was disoriented. Subsequently, his condition deteriorated and he was transferred to the ICU and put on a ventilator. He also suffered from severe pancytopenia. He had tested positive for Covid after death. He has 18 community contacts who live in the same building. His close contact, which brought him to the hospital, has been sampled by Covid. He has a history of frequent visits to Bapu Dham and stayed here for five days.
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