Jalandhar:- Corona has scored a double century in the district. After nine patients came positive on Thursday, their number has increased to 208.For the first time in the district, a DSP and a constable posted in the Punjab Police have also fallen victim to it.
Apart from this, three new areas have also been engulfed by CoronaThe nine patients who have received positive patients on Thursday include a doctor posted at the kidney hospital, a nurse and the son of a patient admitted there.
Doctor Virdi Colony, nurse Shankar Garden and patient’s son Dheena are residents of the villageSimilarly, four people including a woman living in Qazi Mohalla have also been found positive. All of them have been shifted to civil hospital.
Apart from this, 51-year-old DSP and 43-year-old constable returned from Nanded Sahib in Kapurthala district with respect to the pilgrims both also infected by corona. Both are residents of PAP Jalandhar.Both are currently lodged in the isolation ward of Kapurthala.
Health department teams have started survey in all these areas and have started the process of identifying people coming in contact with patients and taking their samples.Police has sealed all the that areas.