Six more people tested positive for coronavirus on Tuesday in Punjab, taking the number of confirmed cases to 29 in the state, said officials.
All six patients had come in contact with with the 70-year-old Nawanshahr resident who had tested positive for the infection and died of cardiac arrest last week.
Among the fresh cases, three are family members of the septuagenarian in Nawanshahr while the others are residents of Phillaur in Jalandhar, officials said here.
All of them have been admitted to a government hospital, they said.
Twenty-one people have contracted the disease after coming in contact with
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