Jalandhar, April 25 - As a part of its strategy to combat the Corona Virus more effectively, the district administration further continued its aggressive testing drive in the city to checkmate Covid 19.

Divulging the details, the Deputy Commissioner Jalandhar Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma and Commissioner of Police Mr. Gurpreet Singh Bhullar and Senior Superintendent of Police Mr. Navjot Singh Mahal, who undertook flag march in the city to review law and order situation, said that the cases that had been coming to fore was due to the aggressive screening of the patients by the administration as today also door to door survey of 12152 houses was conducted by 139 teams and 53112 persons were screened by medical teams. They said that the public should not get panicky about Corona Virus but should support the administration by self home quarantining themselves. They said that the administration had already sealed the containment zones of Anand Nagar, Raja Garden, Ravidass Nagar, Mitha Bazar, Neela Mahal, Old Sabzi Mandi, Narayan Nagar, Jatt Pura, Basti Shiekh, Balmiki Mohalla , Makhdoompura and Nizatam Nagar along with some adjoining areas from where cases have erupted so far. 

The Deputy Commissioner and Commissioner of Police said that the administration has so far conducted taken 2252 samples through the Throat Swab Test. Out of these 1290 patients have been found negative whereas 66 cases of Corona cases have been found so far. They said that none of the patients affected by Covid 19 and undergoing treatment at the local Civil Hospital was critical.

They said that administration has been almost able to trace the chain of the transmission in the district adding that concerted efforts were being made by a joint team of Civil and Police administration along with Health Department was on the job to trace all the contacts of Covid 19. “We will surely win the war against Covid 19 win the active support of people” they added.On the occasion ADC Mr. Vishesh Sarangal were Present.