Ludhiana district's average daily cases touch new high, maximum in state

Nitin Jain

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, April 29

Continuing with the exponential rise being witnessed for the past over a month, Ludhiana district’s average daily positive cases touched a new high and reached 934, highest in the state, during the past week.

The latest count recorded between April 20 and 26 has mounted from 717 between April 15 and 21 and 341 between March 10 and April 13.

The unprecedented rise in the daily fresh cases, which has been setting new record with each passing day, has made the district most vulnerable with highest caseload in the state.

According to the district-wise data compiled by the Health and Family Welfare Department, a copy of which is with The Tribune, Ludhiana has beaten Mohali, which till April 21 remained the worst-hit district with maximum infections per day. In the past week, Mohali reported 821 average daily cases.

Among other districts, Jalandhar reported 516 cases, Bathinda 484, Patiala 470, Amritsar 459, Gurdaspur 217, Mansa 216, Hoshiarpur 211, Muktsar 185, Pathankot 175, Fazilka 157, Sangrur 151, Faridkot 130, Ferozepur and Kapurthala 124 each, Ropar 115, Tarn Taran 110, Moga 83, Nawanshahr 58, Barnala 54 and Fatehgarh Sahib remained the safest district with the minimum number of 51 average daily cases in the last week. The state recorded 5,845 average positive cases per day during this period.

However, Ludhiana’s average positivity rate, which is a key indicator of virus surge, came down from 11.5 per cent between April 15 and 21 to 10 per cent between April 20 and 26, which was even lower than the state average of 10.7 per cent during this period.

With this, the district’s ranking improved from sixth between April 15 and 21 to twelfth between April 20 and 26.

Mohali continued to report the highest positivity rate of 20 per cent in the state, followed by Mansa 19 per cent and Muktsar 17.7 per cent.

Among other districts, Bathinda recorded 17.3 per cent average positivity rate, Fazilka 16.3, Ferozepur 16.2, Moga 14.1, Faridkot 11, Amritsar 10.3, Patiala and Barnala 10.2 each, Pathankot 9.6, Ropar 9.2, Hoshiarpur and Jalandhar 8.8 each, Sangrur 7.4, Kapurthala 6.9, Tarn Taran 6.6, Gurdaspur 5.7, Fatehgarh Sahib 4.5, and Nawanshahr remained the least affected district with lowest 4.3 per cent positivity rate in the last week.

The month-wise compilation of the state’s average positive cases per day and positivity rate since June last showed that the monthly positive cases shot up from 111 with 1.6 per cent positivity rate in June 2020 to the highest-ever 4,011 cases and 10.1 per cent positivity rate this month so far.

Earlier, March reported 1,897 cases with 6.3 per cent positivity rate, February 317 at 1.7 per cent, January 218 at 1.2 per cent, December last 460 at 2 per cent, November 617 at 3.2 per cent, October 625 at 2.5 per cent, September 2,003 at 7.7 per cent, August 1,220 at 7.7 per cent, and July last had witnessed 355 infections at the positivity rate of 4 per cent.

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