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657 active cases, 200 more

discharged in Punjab
14 new patients, including six from
Kapurthala | Count reaches 1,946

Posted: # May 17, 2020 06:46 AM Updated: # 5 hours ago

A health o!cial screens a child in Jalandhar.

Photo: Sarabjit Singh

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 16

With another 200 patients discharged today,

the number of patients who have been
cured has reached 1,257 in the state.

Under the revised policy of discharging the

asymptomatic patients from quarantine
centres, the state government has relieved
around 952 patients in last two days. Now
only 657 active cases are left in the state. At
least 14 fresh cases were reported on
Saturday after which the state count has
reached 1,946.

Punjab: Government brie…

As per the media bulletin, six patients were

reported from Kapurthala, three each from
Ludhiana and Faridkot, two Jalandhar and
one Ropar.

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In Kapurthala, a 34-year-old pregnant

woman, a native of Dhaliwal village, and a
29-year-old man, who has lost his job of four
years with a Dubai-based company, are
among those who tested positive for Covid
on Saturday. Unwilling to part with her
husband who is still there, the woman took
the risk of "ying back.

The man, who had gone to Dubai mid-

March, after spending a three-month leave
in India, was laid o# soon after he went back
as the lockdown had come into place. They
are among 20 Kapurthala natives, who
returned to India from Dubai on Thursday.
The tally in Kapurthala district has reached
32. In Jalandhar district, the cases climbed to
211 with three more testing positive. The
new patients are 24 year-old man from
Greater Kailash (near Maqsoodan), a 45-
year-old man from Ishwar Colony and a 52-
year-old woman from Bhogpur. Health
Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu said most of
returnees from Nanded had been
discharged from the isolation centres.

Claiming that the recovery rate of the state

was about 64 per cent, he said now there
were only 657 active cases. He said the
mortality rate was 1.6 per cent that was
below the national average. He said
aggressive e#orts were being made to trace
and screen every Covid suspect.

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