LUDHIANA: The district on Thursday reported 46 new Covid-19 patients, taking its coronavirus tally to 6,400 while six more fatalities pushed the death toll to 1,460, deputy commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma said.
Sharma said that the district now has 290 active Covid-19 cases.
Sharma said that till date, a total of 58,0614 samples have been taken, of which 5,49,598 samples were found negative while reports of 1,725 samples were pending.
Sharma said that till date, 55,970 people have been kept under home quarantine in the district and at present, the number of such people is 818. On Thursday, 45 people were sent for home quarantine.