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Panchkula confirms first Coronavirus case

| @indiablooms | Mar 21, 2020, at 05:29 pm

Panchkula/UNI: A 38-year-old woman was tested positive of the deadly Novel Coronavirus here on Saturday, taking the total number of infected patients to 10 in the tricity of Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali.

A Health Department source, while confirming the news to UNI, said the woman who tested positive, used to work in a beauty salon and contracted virus from another patient, who had recently returned from London.

The source further said the patient has been admitted to an isolation ward of Sector-6 General Hospital, here. Meanwhile, the patient's son was also immediately tested but was declared negative of the virus.

With this case, the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has reached seven in Haryana.

Haryana government on Friday, as a precautionary measure to keep a check on the spread of Coronavirus, decided to impose Section 144 of CrPC in both urban as well as rural areas of the state, under which gathering of 20 or more people at a place will be restricted.  

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