Covid-19: Two test positive in Ludhiana, lowest this year

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, July 31

Two persons tested positive for Covid, while no death due to the disease was reported in the district today. This is the lowest daily count of patients this year. The recovery rate of Covid-19 patients has reached 97.55%.

Today there were 49 active patients in the district. A total of 85,156 patients have recovered so far in the district.

A total of five patients — two from Ludhiana district and three from other states/districts — tested positive in the last 24 hours.

Till date, a total of 20,00,642 samples have been taken and reports of all samples have been received. As many as 19,01,734 samples were found negative.

Now total number of patients belonging to Ludhiana is 87,298, while 11,610 patients belong to other districts/states.

The total number of persons who lost their lives to the disease is 2,093 from Ludhiana and 1,047 from other districts.

Today six Covid patients were admitted to hospitals, while two were on ventilator support and 41 sent for home isolation.

Today samples of 8,522 suspected patients were sent for testing and their results are expected shortly.

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