20 more die, 597 Covid positive in Ludhiana

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, May 23

Today, 597 persons tested positive for Covid while 20 lost their lives to the virus. Today, there were 8,617 active cases in the district and 12,59,238 samples have been collected so far.

The number of confirmed positive cases have now reached 81,018 in the district while 1,874 have lost their lives to the virus.

Two expecting women, three healthcare workers and a pre-operative case were among those tested positive while 123 are still untraceable.

Those who lost their lives today include 11 men and nine women. Nine of the deceased were from rural areas while the remaining persons were from urban areas.

Today, 1,126 patients were admitted to various hospitals across the district of which 52 were on ventilator support.

Meanwhile, Punjab Youth Development Board (PYDB) chairman Sukhwinder Singh Bindra said today that special Covid-19 vaccination camps for the youth were being organised in various parts of the state.

He inaugurated one such camp at the Government College for Girls, here, today.

He said CM Capt Amarinder Singh has announced that Rs10-lakh special grant would be provided to villages that achieve 100 per cent vaccination. Today, 13,273 persons were vaccinated against Covid in the district.