Second in state with Covid cases, tops in testing

Ludhiana: While the district continues to remain second in the state after Amritsar in reporting Covid-19 cases, it tops the districts in terms of conducting maximum number of tests in the state.
The case doubling rate, which means the number of days it will take to double the number of cases (as per the past one week), is 11.9 days against the national average of 19.5. However in Jalandhar, it is 10 days. But Ludhiana’s recovery rate is 41%, which is 15% less as compared with the national average of 67%. In the number of positive cases reported, the state is seventeenth in the country and Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Delhi are the top rankers.
Till date, 222 patients have been admitted to the three levels of facilities in the district, which is the highest in the state. They include 109 patients admitted at level-I Covid care centres, 60 at level-II and 53 at level-III. Out of 222 patients in Ludhiana, six are from outside the district, including three from Jalandhar and one each from Pathankot, Faridkot and Ferozepur.
After Amritsar, Ludhiana is second in the state in case load. Till now, 623 cases have been reported, of which 432 were confirmed till June. There are 207 active cases, 395 cured and 18 deaths, of which eight were reported in the past nine days. With this, the recovery rate is 41 % and fatality rate 3%.
As on June 22, testing data showed Ludhiana topped the state with 27,397 samples tested, of which 623 were positive. It was revealed that over the past week, the cumulative samples collected and tested were increasing at a daily average rate of 3.9% and 4.9%, respectively, in the district.
Punjab has a testing capacity of 6,810, with 2,000 each in 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, 64.3% of men and 35.7% of women tested positive with 5% (198) of positives falling in the age group of 0-10 years, 9% (350) in 11-20 years, 21% (791) in 21-30 years, 20% ( 756) in 31-40 years, 16% ( 608) in 41-50 years and 15% (573) in 50-60 years, and 11% (419) and 3% (119 ) in 61-70 years and 70-80 years, respectively, and 1% falls under 81-90 category.
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, 12.4% cases were symptomatic and 58.5% asymptomatic.