Four test positive in Ludhiana

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, September 19

Four persons tested positive for Covid while no death was reported due to the disease today. At present, there are 28 active patients in the district. Today, 23 persons were sent for home isolation and only one patient is admitted to hospital for Covid treatment.

A total of six patients (four new patients from Ludhiana district and two from other state/district) have tested positive in the past 24 hours.

Till date, a total of 24,34,758 samples have been taken, of which 23,35,561 were found negative. Now, the total number of patients related to Ludhiana is 87,522 while 11,675 patients belong to other districts/states.

The total number of persons who lost their lives include 2,100 persons from Ludhiana and 1,049 from other districts.

Whenever the district administration or the Health Department, Ludhiana, finds out about any positive or suspected Covid patients, their samples are sent for testing. As many as 7,254 samples of suspected patients were sent for testing today and their results are expected shortly.

Deputy Commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma appealed to residents to adhere to all Covid safety protocols of the state government to not only save themselves but keeping everyone around safe.