Ludhiana: Two residents of Ludhiana died of Covid-19 and 98 tested positive on Sunday.
As per the local media bulletin, the district casualties included a 60-year-old man of Kailash Nagar in Doraha, who had hypertension, chronic kidney disease and left ventricular failure, and a 52-year-old man of Model Town, who had diabetes, hypertension and chronic kidney disease.
Civil surgeon Dr Rajesh Bagga said the district toll has risen to 881 and that of outsiders to 367.
To date, 4,33,048 persons have been tested.
Of the 98 new cases, 36 were from flu corner (influenza-like illness patients), 11 positive cases’ contacts, 24 from OPD, 20 through tracing process, one health-care worker, one severe acute respiratory infection case, an interstate traveller, and three pre-operative cases.
On the day, 16 outsiders, too, tested positive here.
The local health department officials said the Ludhiana case count has increased to 22,044 and that of outsiders to 3,105.
So far, 20,365 patients have recovered, which constitutes 92.38% of the total cases.
There are 795 active cases here.