29 fresh cases in Ludhiana

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, February 3

The district reported 29 fresh cases of Covid-19 on Wednesday. Of them, six patients came in contact with positive patients, eight visited the OPD and 10 with influenza like illness visited the Flu Corner. Besides, five other persons have tested positive for the virus.

Deputy Commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma said at present, there were 356 active patients in the district.

He said a total of 39 patients, including 29 new patients from Ludhiana district and 10 from other states/districts, had tested positive in the past 24 hours.

He said till date, a total of 6,06,526 samples have been taken, of which reports of 6,04,428 had been received. Of these, 5,74,565 samples were found negative while reports of 2,098 were pending.

He said now, the total number of patients related to Ludhiana was 25,913, while 3,950 patients belong to other districts or states.

The Deputy Commissioner said till date, 56,408 persons had been kept under home quarantine in the district and now, the number of such persons was 683. Today, 29 persons were sent for home quarantine. Civil Surgeon Sukhjivan Kakkar has informed that two patients, including one each from Kapurthala and Moga, died of the virus. A total of 1,001 people from Ludhiana and 480 from other districts have died of Covid till date.

As many as 1,956 samples of suspected patients were sent for testing today and their results are expected shortly. The Deputy Commissioner has appealed to residents to adhere to all Covid safety protocols to not only save themselves but keeping everyone around safe.