20 students among 29 test positive for Covid in Ludhiana district

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, August 10

After only one person testing positive for Covid yesterday, today 29 tested positive, while no death due to the disease was reported.

With the reopening of schools, Covid cases from schools have started emerging once again. Today 20 students tested positive from two government schools.

Eight students tested positive from Government Senior Secondary School, Basti Jodhewal, and 12 students tested positive from Government High School, Kailash Nagar.

Both the schools have been shut till August 24 and contact tracing of the positive patients is being done. Medical teams have been appointed and tests of both students and teachers are being done. The Health Department has collected samples from 50-60 government schools and the drive will continue in the coming days as well.

There are 69 active patients in the district at present.

Till date, a total of 20,78,593 samples have been taken and the reports of all have been received. As many as 19,79,596 samples were found negative.

Now the total number of patients belonging to Ludhiana is 87,367, while 11,630 patients belong to other districts/states.

The total number of persons who lost their lives is 2,095 from Ludhiana and 1,047 from other districts.

Samples of 8,466 suspected patients were sent for testing today and their results are expected shortly.