With the Janata curfew going on, seven more persons tested positive for coronavirus in Punjab on Sunday, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 21 in the state, an official said.
As per the official, all fresh coronavirus cases were reported from Nawanshahr district on Sunday and they were either family members of a 70-year-old man, who was earlier tested positive, or the ones who came in contact with that man, the official said.
As per Nawanshahr Civil Surgeon Rajinder Prasad Bhatia, “Seven more persons have tested positive for coronavirus,” Out of the seven, four were family members of the 70-year-old coronavirus positive man while two others had traveled with the 70-years-old man while returning from Germany and one was a villager who came in his contact, said Bhatia.
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The 70-year-old coronavirus patient was resident of a village in Nawanshahr district, had returned from Germany via Italy on March 7. He died at a hospital due to cardiac arrest on Wednesday.
With seven more Nawanshahr residents testing positive, the total number of confirmed cases in Nawanshahr district alone reached 14. Overall, the number of positive cases in Punjab has touched 21 mark.