Mohali district of Punjab reports one more Coronavirus case on Tuesday, taking the numbers in the district to 64. The 47-year-old tested positive on Tuesday is the brother of the Jawaharpur village sarpanch, who was erstwhile tested positive for COVID-19. The man was first tested negative but got tested positive in repeated sampling.

Jawaharpur village is seriously-hit by the contagion--accounting for 39 of the 64 cases in Mohali.

The first case was detected on April 4 in the village, when a 42-year-old-year panch had been tested positive for COVID-19. That followed 38 more people have tested positive for Coronavirus.

However, the authorities attested to the fact that none of the 39 patients had any travel history. Most of them were asymptomatic and were detected only through testing. The authorities suspected that some Tablighi Jamaat member had stayed in the village, but escaped before anyone could gather more information about them.

Deputy Commissioner Girish Dayalan shared that health teams have been deputed to the village to take the samples of his family members and other contacts in the Jawaharpur village. He sighs a relief that 27 persons have cured of the disease while the number of active patients in the district was 35 and 7 test results were awaited.

Dayalan assures that containment protocol is being strictly followed in Jawaharpur and adjoining villages. Sanitization is also being done at regular intervals, he added.