12 Army persons test Covid-19 positive in Kangra, 34 new cases
Dharamshala, Jan 1 (UNI) At least 34 more cases of Covid-19 including 12 persons from the army Unit including five children of army personals tested positive for the lethal novel coronavirus, on Saturday in Kangra district.
Addition of these new cases pushed the overall case load of the district to 52,396.
Chief Medical Officer(CMO) Kangra Dr. Gurdharshan Gupta told UNI that all the 34 fresh cases, which included 14 females and 20 males have tested positive today and have been isolated as per the protocol.
He said that among the fresh cases today there were twelve persons from the army Unit including five minor children in this district.
He said that there was no death reported from any part of the district today thus keeping the death toll stagnant at 1179.
CMO said that the number of active cases has further jumped up to 172 on Saturday in Kangra district.
CMO said that there was only 20 recoveries today pushing the number of recovered patients to 51,040 in the district on Saturday.