Ludhiana: A man of Ludhiana district died of Covid-19 and 72, including four students and three teachers, tested positive on Wednesday.
As per the local media bulletin, the 75-year-old deceased was a resident of Ram Nagar in Khanna. He had hypertension and died at a city hospital.
Civil surgeon Dr Sukhjivan Kakkar said the district toll tally has increased to 1,031 and that of outsiders stood at 510.
To date, 6,75,958 persons have been tested.
Of the 72 new cases, 43 were from flu corner, seven from OPD, four positive cases’ contacts, seven through tracing process, two health workers and two pre-operative cases. Besides, four students (one each of a government school in Hambran and a private school in Talwandi Kalan and two of a private school in Khanna) and three teachers (one from a private school in Jassowal and two of Government Senior Secondary School in Hambran) have contracted the virus. Fourteen outsiders, too, tested positive here.
The local health department officials said the district case count was 27,367 and that of outsiders 4,267.
So far, 25,673 patients have recovered, which constitutes 93.81% of the total cases.
There were 663 active cases till Wednesday. The number of persons home quarantined is 1,210.
On the day, 162 persons were quarantined and 3,904 samples collected.
There are 147 ventilators in private hospitals, including four of the government at CMCH.
Eight patients, including four Ludhianvis, are on ventilators.