Ludhiana: With the Covid-19 cases witnessing a surge daily, the district’s cured percentage has dropped to below 91. The cured percentage is the rate of patients who have recovered out of the total positive cases in a geographical area.
According to the local media bulletin on Covid-19, the cured percentage for Ludhiana on Saturday was 90.7, which is lower than March 9’s 93.19%. The rate has been below 95% after January 24.
The rate had twice reached 95%—on October 24 and December 28 last year. It remained at the same value for most days in January before dropping to below 94% in February.
The data since July 9 last shows that the cured percentage increased from 49% on July 9 to 66% on August 15 and 74% till August 31 last, with intermittent rise and fall. It increased to 85% by September 15, 90% till October 1 and 94% by October 15 last year. The rate had reached the highest value of 95% on October 24 last year, then fell and again reached the same value by December-end and on most days of January before falling to 94.13% on March 1; 92.83% on March 10 and then to the current value.
In the cured percentage in Punjab, Ludhiana is at number 10 position, Fazilka (95%) at number one spot, Pathankot (94.7%) second and Faridkot (94.5%) third. SBS Nagar has the lowest rate at 81.3%.
The health department officials say the fall in the rate is due to recent surge in the Covid-19 cases.
Civil surgeon Dr Sukhjeevan Kakkar says the cases have increased in the past around 10 days and it takes 17 days to recover, so the recovery rate has fallen.
The health department officials say the cured rate will increase if people start following pandemic guidelines, like wearing of masks, maintaining social distancing, hand hygiene and avoiding crowded places.
“Everybody should follow the Covid-appropriate behaviour for their own good as well as of the society,” says Sandeep Kumar, a city resident.
Dist vs state
While Ludhiana’s cured percentage is 90.7%, that of Punjab is 88.9%.