One tests Covid positive in Ludhiana, lowest daily count this year

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, August 9

Today only one person, the lowest this year, tested positive for Covid. The recovery rate of Covid-19 patients has reached 97.54 per cent.

Deputy Commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma said under the Mission Fateh of the Punjab Government, the number of Covid-19 patients getting cured in Ludhiana district is increasing with each passing day. He said there are 54 active patients in the district at present and 85,201 have recovered so far.

Five persons — one from Ludhiana and four from other states/districts — tested positive for Covid in the last 24 hours.

Till date, a total of 20,70,127 samples have been taken and reports of all the samples have been received. As many as 19,71,147 samples were found negative. Now the total number of patients belonging to Ludhiana is 87,350, while 11,630 patients belong to other districts/states.

Total number of persons who lost their lives is 2,095 from Ludhiana and 1,047 from other districts.

The samples of 6,381 suspected patients were sent for testing today and their results are expected shortly.