Covid-19 positive cases: District is second in state

Ludhiana: The district is second in the state in reporting Covid-19 positive cases. Its case doubling rate (as per the past one week) is 13.4 days against the national average of 18.3.
However, Ludhiana’s recovery rate is 41% which is 10% less as compared with the national average of 51%. In the number of positive cases reported, the state is seventeenth in the country and Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Delhi are the top rankers.
To date, 139 patients have been admitted to the three levels of facilities in the district, which is the highest in the state. They include 47 patients admitted to level-I Covid care centres, 65 to level-II and 27 to level-III. Out of 139 patients in Ludhiana, five are from outside the district, including three from Jalandhar and one each from Pathankot and Ferozepur.
After Amritsar, Ludhiana is second in the state in caseload. Till now, 396 cases have been reported, of which 146 were confirmed in the past seven days. There are 163 active cases, 218 cured and 12 deaths, of which two were reported in the past seven days. With this, the recovery rate is 41% and fatality rate 3%.
As on June 15, testing data showed Ludhiana topped the state with 18,559 samples tested out of which 396 were positive. It was revealed that over the past seven days, the cumulative samples collected and tested were increasing at a daily average rate of 5.8% and 5.2%, respectively, in the district.
Punjab has a testing capacity of 6,810, with 2,000 each at Patiala, Amritsar and Faridkot, 100 at CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh, 60 at PGI, 150 at Dayanand Medical College and Hospital and 500 at core labs. Punjab uses 88% of state government facilities, 2% of government of India facilities and 10% of private labs for testing.
According to ICMR’s positive case analysis, 65% of men and 35% of women tested positive with 5% of positives falling in the age group of 0-10 years, 9% in 11-20 years, 21% in 21-30 years, 19% in 31-40 years, 15% each in 41-50 years and 50-60 years, and 11% and 3% in 61-70 years and 70-80 years, respectively.
It was also revealed in the state’s Covid-19 response status report that most of the cases were asymptomatic direct high-risk contacts of confirmed cases. In the district, 11% cases were symptomatic and 55% asymptomatic.
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Covid-19 status: World — India — Punjab — Ludhiana
Total cases: 7, 811,607 —- 3, 21, 406 —- 3,063 —- 369
Cases reported in past 24 hours: 1,57, 457 — 11,811 —- 77 — 40
Total deaths: 4,30,206 — 9,199 — 65 — 12
Deaths in past 24 hours: 4,853 —- 309 — 3 — 2
Case fatality percentage: 6% — 3% — 2% — 3%
Recovered cases to date: 4,010,412 —- 1,62,326 —- 2,327 — 218
Recovery percentage: 51% — 51% — 76% — 41%
Active cases: 3,370,989 —— 149,881 —— 671 —- 163
Active cases percentage: 43% — 47% —- 22% — 41.1%
Cases per million population: 976 — 179 —- 102 —- 110
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In Punjab ---------- In Ludhiana
Total 3,063 ---------- 396
Cured 2,327 ---------- 218
Death 65 ---------- 12
Active 671 ---------- 163
Recovery rate 76% ---------- 41%
Case fatality rate 2% ---------- 3%