Chandigarh, April 20, 2020: An 82-year-old woman admitted to Alchemist, Panchkula, was sampled at Civil Hospital, Sector 6, Panchkula, and tested coronavirus positive today. She had been residing at Sector 12, Panchkula, and Sector 18, Chandigarh.
A 23 year old male resident of sector 30 & a positive contact of positive COVID 19 case of sector 30 with a history of return from Sharjah has been cured and discharged from PGIMER today.
Among family contacts of the one-and-half-year-old positive case from Sector 30, two children aged 16 and 13 years, are being sampled at GMSH sector 16 today. A community contact of the Sector 30 case who is residing in Sector 21 has been sampled at PGIMER today.
Contact tracing and sampling of Kachhi colony, Dhanas, case: All seven household contacts of the positive COVID 19 case of Kachhi colony, Dhanas, have turned out to be negative. All the eight remote community contacts of positive COVID 19 case who were working in a dairy at Kachhi colony Dhanas are reported to be negative.
Latest updates:
Total number of patients hospitalized: 13
Total number of Samples Tested: 454
Total number of samples found Negative: 417
Total number of samples found Positive: 27
Total number of patients cured/discharged: 14
Total number of deaths: 0
Total number of samples whose result awaited: 9