Six more test positive for coronavirus in Punjab; total cases 29

Six more people tested positive for coronavirus on Tuesday in Punjab, taking number of confirmed cases to 29 in state, said officials.

All six patients h come in contact with with 70-year-old Nawanshahr resident who h tested positive for infection and died of cardiac arrest last week.

Among fresh cases, three are family members of septunarian in Nawanshahr while ors are residents of Phillaur in Jalandhar, officials said in Chandigarh.

All of m have been mitted to a government hospital, y said.

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Twenty-one people have contracted disease after coming in contact with Germany-returned septunarian.

 septunarian, a resident of Pathlawa vill in Nawanshahr, h even gone to Hola Mohalla celebrations in Rupnagar's Anandpur Sahib from March 7 to 9.

authorities h appealed to people to get mselves tested if y met him. In Punjab, re are 18 positive cases in Nawanshahr, five in Mohali, three in Jalandhar, two in Amritsar and one in Hoshiarpur.

As of w, a total of 282 samples have been tested, of which 220 were declared negative while result of 33 is awaited. Close contacts of all positive cases have been put under quarantine and surveillance, as per a medical bulletin.

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