Ludhiana: Eight residents of Ludhiana died of Covid-19 and 390 tested positive on Monday.
The district casualties included a 43-year-old man of Railway Colony, a 85-year-old man of Jagraon, a 54-year-old man, a 85-year-old man of Moti Nagar, a 70-year-old woman of Raikot, a 63-year-old patient of Sarabha Nagar, a 65-year-old man, and a man, 62, of Samrala.
Three patients, one each of Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur and Bathinda, too succumbed at the city hospitals and 61 cases from outside the district tested positive here.
Civil surgeon Dr Sukhjivan Kakkar said the district toll tally was 1,177 and that of outsiders 604.
To date, 8,12,374 persons have been tested.
Of the 390 new cases, 170 were from flu corner, 105 from OPD, 31 contacts of positive patients, 77 through tracing process, one severe acute respiratory infection case, one healthcare worker, one ANC, three teachers (one each of a private school in Shastri Nagar, a private school in Khanna, a government school in Jamalpur), and an employee of a school in Khanna.
The district case count is 36,373 and that of outsiders 5,735.
So far, 32,361 patients have recovered, which constitutes 88.96% of the total cases.
There are 2,835 active cases. Number of persons home quarantined is 5,732.
On Monday, 416 persons were quarantined and 3,634 samples collected.
Twenty patients are on ventilators. Of them, 10 are of Ludhiana.