Chandigarh: A 49-year-old Chandigarh man with no travel history to any coronavirus-hit country tested positive for the infection on Wednesday, taking the number of confirmed cases to 16 in the union territory, officials said.
According to an official release, the Sector 35 resident had a “typical pneumonia with bilateral pneumonitis”.
“He has no travel history to any affected country but he has contact history with two of his relatives at Mansa in Punjab who had come from Dubai and Singapore,” said the release.
Three members of his family have been home quarantined, it said.
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