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The laboratories are now gearing up to meet protocols and safety measures.

Other than 155 COVID patients, there are 1,300 beds that are occupied in the emergency block of PGI by non-COVID patients. Doctors said that these are those patients that required urgent admission for other surgeries or emergencies.

A number of hospital staffers tested positive for the disease on Wednesday. From GMCH-32, a 32-year-old man, a 24-year-old woman and a 28-year-old man, all residents of Sector 32, tested positive.

Sources said the communication alleged that the long waiting list of police personnel are being ignored while government quarters are being allotted to cops attached with senior police officers, as their personal security officers, drivers and gunmen.

About 55 signboards were installed in Sector 48 on Wedesday, indicating the names of the societies of the sector and the house numbers in the area.

According to the UT administration, the website has been developed with the intent of providing a single online source to all information related to the development in the city.

Officials said that the departments have been directed to submit proposals for slashing expenditure as the civic body is facing a financial crisis.

About 55 signboards were installed in Sector 48 on Wedesday, indicating the names of the societies of the sector and the house numbers in the area. Area councillor Davesh Moudgil said that this project has been completed with a total amount of Rs 2.2 lakh.

At present, the National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune is the only institution in the country capable of providing a well-coordinated medical and public health response to such an emergency.

Lalit Kumar, executive engineer of the public health wing of Chandigarh engineering wing, asserts that the toilets are in a bad condition. They are not carrying out this renovation for the Independence Day and work will be done after that.

Officials said, the inmate who will surrender at the jail gate will be sent to a quarantine centre in Maloya where their testing will be done by a team of DHS and only those inmates will be shifted to jail whose Covid-19 test will be negative.

The healthcare workers are working under a lot of pressure. The citizens should recognise their hard work and show their support by acknowledgement. Small gestures will boost their morale, says GMCH director B S Chavan.

Twelve deaths were reported from Ludhiana, three from Patiala, two from Amritsar and one each from Barnala, Jalandhar, Mohali, Nawanshahr, Ropar and Sangrur.

Sources said, the parents have claimed that the gang members, including two ASHA workers, had misguided them about their children immediately after the birth.

The city has 530 active cases at present, while 23 patients have succumbed to the disease so far. Out of the total fresh cases, 36 positive cases were detected through RT-PCR and 11 positive cases were identified through rapid antigen tests.