One dead, two test positive in Ludhiana district

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, August 26

Two persons tested positive for Covid, while one death due to the disease was reported in the district today. At present there are 33 active patients in the district.

Till now 85,330 patients have recovered so far and the recovery rate has reached 97.56 per cent.

Three patients — two from Ludhiana and one from other state/district — tested positive in the last 24 hours.

Till date, a total of 22,39,589 samples have been taken, of which 2140473 samples were found negative. Now, the total number of patients belonging to Ludhiana is 87,460, while 11,656 patients belong to other districts/states.

The total number of persons who lost their lives is 2,097 from Ludhiana and 1,048 from other districts.

Samples of 9,136 suspected Covid patients were sent for testing today and their results are expected shortly.

Deputy Commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma appealed to the residents to adhere to all the safety protocols like wearing masks, maintaining social distance and washing hands frequently of the Punjab government to not only save themselves but keeping everyone around safe.

642 vaccinated at camp

As many as 642 persons were vaccinated at a camp organised by the Maharaja Aggarwal Sewa Sangh, BRS Nagar C Block, under the supervision of Dr Avinash Jindal, SMO. Present on the occasion were area councillor Dr Hari Singh Brar, Viney Gupta, president of sangh, and Dr Avinash Jindal.