A school student being tested for Covid in Ludhiana on Friday.
Tribune News Service
Ludhiana, August 20
Three persons tested positive for Covid-19 while no death was reported from the district today. The recovery rate of Covid patients has reached 97.52 per cent. Today, only one patient suffering from the virus was admitted to a hospital while no patient, either from Ludhiana or from other districts, was on ventilator support.
At present, there are 75 active patients in the district and 70 persons were sent for home isolation.
A total of 21,88,098 samples have been taken and reports of all samples have been received. Of these, 20,89,006 were found negative. Now, the total number of patients related to Ludhiana is 87,442 while 1,048 patients belong to other districts/states.
The total number of persons who lost their lives include 2,095 persons from Ludhiana and 1,048 from other districts.
“As many as 10,625 samples of suspected patients were sent for testing today and their results are expected shortly,” said DC Varinder Kumar Sharma.
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