Mohali, April 14, 2020: Two positive cases were reported from SAS Nagar today according to DC Girish Dayalan.
One of the cases is from coronavirus hotbed of Jawaharpur village in Dera Bassi tehsil while the other is from Mundi Kharar.
The sample of the 56-year-old woman from Jawaharpur village was sent for retesting and the result came out positive. She is an immediate family member of a coronavirus positive person.
The second case, a 38-year-old woman, was in immediate contact of a person who had died of the disease a few days back in Mundi Kharar.
All family members and other immediate contacts of both women have been isolated.
With the addition of these two cases, the number of coronavirus positive patients in SAS Nagar has climbed to 56 and out of this 38 are from Jawaharpur which constitutes nearly 68 per cent of all cases in the district.
Five persons have made full recovery and two have died, while 49 are undergoing treatment. Till date, 832 samples have been collected.