Covid-19: Two succumb, 35 test +ve in Ludhiana

Ludhiana, June 28

Today 35 persons tested positive for Covid, while two persons lost their lives to the virus. The recovery rate of the district now is 97.18 per cent and case fatality rate is 2.40 per cent.

Those who lost their lives were a 56-year-old woman and 51-year-old man. Both the patients were from rural areas.

At present there are 365 active patients in the district and 84,475 patients have recovered so far. The total number of persons who lost their lives to Covid are 2,083 from Ludhiana and 1,038 from other districts.

A total of 40 patients — 35 new patients from Ludhiana district and five from other states/districts — tested positive in the last 24 hours.

Till date, a total of 16,94,153 samples were taken, of which reports of 16,94,125 have been received. As many as 15,95,714 samples were found negative, while reports of 28 samples are pending. The total number of patients belonging to Ludhiana is 86,923, while 11,488 patients belong to other districts/states.

As many as 8,969 samples of suspected patients were sent for testing today and their results are expected shortly. — TNS