15 fall prey to virus

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, May 24

As many as 507 persons tested positive for Covid, while 15 lost their lives to the virus today. The total confirmed positive cases have now reached 81,525, while the death toll has gone to 1,889. Today, active cases in the district were 7,804.

Those who tested positive include an undertrial. As many as 111 patients are still not traceable.

Three women and 12 men lost their lives to Covid. Out of them six belonged to rural areas, while rest were from urban areas. A total of 989 patients were admitted to hospitals in the district, out of which 60 were on ventilator support.

Meanwhile, to make the Mission Fateh 2.0 (corona-free village) a success, the mass media wing of the Health Department, conducted awareness programmes in Patti Multani, Bahadurke, Bagia and Kakkar Tihara villages under Block Sidhwabet block.

The team of the mass media wing held a meeting with the sarpanches, panches and medical practitioners of these villages and apprised them of the instructions issued by the Punjab Government to check the spread of Covid, which include encouraging people not to leave their homes without an emergency.

The team asked them to gather in limited numbers at weddings or bhogs in the villages. People should wear masks when going out of the house and wash their hands from time to time. No meetings or gatherings of any kind should be allowed and social distance should be maintained as well.

“If anyone has a mild fever, cough, cold or difficulty in breathing, they should be asked to get themselves tested at the nearest health centre,” said a member of the mass media wing while talking to villagers.

DC Varinder Kumar Sharma inaugurated the free service of oxygen concentrators launched by the Chamber of Industrial and Commercial Undertaking (CICU).