No death; 26 fresh cases in Ludhiana

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, January 24

Twentysix persons tested positive for Covid, while no death was reported due to coronavirus in the district today.

Meanwhile, three more students of Government Senior Secondary Smart School, Galib Kalan, have tested positive for the virus. Earlier, three students and 13 teachers had tested positive from the same school, while one teacher had lost her life yesterday.

The school has been closed till February 4.

Micro-containment zone declared in Jagraon

In addition, one new micro-containment zone was declared. The zone comprises Galib Kalan, Moti Bagh, Heera Bagh and Teg Bahadur Nagar. All these areas are in Jagraon and within the radius of 100-150m.

“Three more students from the Galib Kalan school have tested positive and the total number has now gone up to six, while the reports of 128 more samples that were collected from the school are pending,” said Civil Surgeon, Dr Sukhjeevan Kakkar.

District epidemiologist, Dr Ramesh, said they had conducted a survey at Galib Kalan and adjoining areas and the areas were declared micro-containment zone after six confirmed cases of Covid from there. Teachers from the school, who had tested positive, belong to different areas. Today, 35 samples were collected from the areas.

At present, there are 260 active patients in the district.

A total of 5,87,112 samples have been taken, out of which the reports of 5,86,080 samples had been received, of which 5,56,680 samples were found negative, while the reports of 1,032 samples were pending.

The total number of patients related to Ludhiana is 25,529, while 3,871 patients belong to other districts/states. Now, the total number of persons who have lost their lives include 992 from Ludhiana and 472 from other districts.

According to the Health Department, till date, 56,055 persons have been kept under home quarantine in the district and at present, the number of such persons is 783. Today, 38 persons were sent for home quarantine.

Today, 2,184 samples of suspected patients were sent for testing and their results were expected shortly.

Deputy Commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma appealed to all residents to adhere to all safety protocols like wearing masks, maintaining social distance and washing hands frequently for everyone’s safety.

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