One more tested positive on Monday in HP, tally mounts to 59

 

Shimla, May 12

One more person tested positive in Kangra district today for the SARS-COV-2 increasing the
tally of Pandemic to 59 in the hill state,senior officer of state confirmed.

Additional Chief Secretary Health and Nodal Officer of COVID-19 R D Dhiman said that one a 63 yrs old man belonged to Chaundha Village of Kangra district tested positive at Microbiology lab and Dr. Rajinder Prasad Medical College Tanda and hospitalised at Zonal Hospital Dharmshala.

The patient returned to Himachal from Delhi on May 8 and sample of the patient was taken during institutional quarantine as he turned symptomatic during the isolation.   With this
number of COVID-19 active cases mounted to 18 and total tally of Pandemic increased to 59.

 Una district recorded 17 cases of COVID-19, Chamba 12, Kangra recorded 10, Solan nine, Hamirpur four Sirmaur, Bilaspur and Mandi two each and Shimla one.

35 patient recovered from the state two have died of pandemic in the state so far and four migraged outsid the state .  

On starday and Sunday six people across the state had tested positive, including two people in Bilaspur, three in Chamba and one in Kangra