LUDHIANA: Deputy commissioner Varinder Sharma on Friday said that there are 562 active patients in the Punjab's Ludhiana district at present.
Under the Mission Fateh of the Punjab government, the number of
Covid-19 patients getting cured in district Ludhiana is increasing with each passing day, he said, adding, a total of 91 patients (72 new patients from district Ludhiana and 19 from other states/districts) have tested positive in the last 24 hours time.
He further said that till date, a total of 4,00,418 samples have been taken, out of which the report of 3,98,479 samples has been received, of which 3,74,995 samples were found negative while the report of 1,939 samples was pending.
Sharma said that now, the total number of patients from Ludhiana was 20,657, while 2,846 patients hail from other districts/states.
Now, the total number of persons who lost their lives include 844 people from Ludhiana and 330 from other districts.
The DC said that till date, 47,443 persons have been kept under home quarantine in the district and at present, the number of such persons is 1,068. Today, 75 people were home quarantined.