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7 more people test positive for Covid-19 in Patiala

PATIALA: Seven more people in Patiala have tested positive of Covid-19 on Wednesday. Among the new cases five are close contacts of a 20-year-old pregnant woman who had tested positive for the infection on Monday evening.


The health department on Tuesday had collected samples of six close contacts of Rajpura-based pregnant woman.

The district health officials claimed that among the five close contacts include her 24 year-old husband and a two-year-old son.

Patiala civil surgeon Dr Harish Malhotra, said, “On Tuesday, around 296 samples were taken for testing of which 287 reported negative, two tests are repeated and seven turned out to be positive. We have collected 318 samples on Wednesday.”

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