LUDHIANA: Deputy Commissioner
Varinder Sharma on Sunday informed that the number of
Covid-19 patients getting cured in district Ludhiana is increasing with each passing day. He said that there are 743 active patients in the district at present.
He said that sincere efforts are being made to keep people safe from Covid-19. He said that a total of 73 patients (64 new patients from district Ludhiana and 9 from other states/districts) have tested positive in the last 24 hours time.
He further said that till date, a total of 4,17,856 samples have been taken, out of which report of 4,16,016 samples have been received, of which 3,91,636 samples were found negative while report of 1840 samples were pending. He said that now, the total number of patients related to Ludhiana is 21404, while 2,976 patients are related to other districts/states.
He said that 2 patients lost their lives today (1 from Ludhiana district and 1 from Haryana State). Now, the total number of persons who lost their lives including 860 people from Ludhiana and 347 from other districts.
He informed that till date, 48,395 persons have been kept under
home quarantine in the district and at present, the number of such persons is 1,375. Today, 17 persons were sent for home quarantine.