LUDHIANA: Ten residents of Ludhiana died of Covid-19 and 758 tested positive on Monday.
According to the health department bulletin, a patient each of Amritsar, Kapurthala, Moga and Bathinda, too, succumbed to the disease at the city hospitals.
The district casualties included a 62-year-old man of Mundiyan Kalan, a 57-year-old woman of Lahul village, a 59-year-old man of Deharka village, a 30-year-old man of Shimlapuri, a 63-year-old man of Basti Jodhewal, a 42-year-old man of Sherpur, a 45-year-old man of Dhandari Kalan, a 38-year-old man of Giaspura, a 60-year-old man of Lassara village, and a woman, 60, of Dholewal.
Civil surgeon Dr Sukhjivan Kakkar said the district’s fatality figure has increased to 1,253 and that of outsiders to 647.
To date, 8,93,994 persons have been tested.
Of the 758 new cases, 360 were from flu corner, 147 from OPD, 70 contacts of positive patients, 174 through tracing process, three healthcare workers, two severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) cases and one undertrial. Besides, 81 patients from outside Ludhiana tested positive here.
The local health department officials said the district case count is 43,821 and that of outsiders 6,768.
So far, 37,864 patients have recovered, which constitutes 86.41% of the total cases.
There are 4,704 active cases. The number of persons home quarantined is 6,743.
On Monday, 501 persons were quarantined and 6,005 samples collected.
Seventeen patients are on ventilators. Of them, 11 are from Ludhiana.