Ludhiana: Five residents of Ludhiana died of Covid-19 and 778 tested positive on Tuesday.
As per the health department bulletin, a patient each of Fazilka and Jammu too succumbed to the virus at the city hospitals.
The district casualties included a 53-year-old diabetic man of Shimlapuri, a 62-year-old man of Ludhiana with hypertension, a 75-year-old man of Aluna Miana with diabetes and hypertension, a 65-year-old woman of Payal with coronary artery disease, and a 40-year-old man of Ram Nagar.
Civil surgeon Dr Sukhjivan Kakkar said the district’s toll tally has climbed to 1,258 and that of outsiders to 649.
To date, 9,01,276 persons have been tested.
Of the 778 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, one undertrial and one ANC. Besides, 73 patients from outside Ludhiana too tested positive here.
The local health department officials said the district case count is 44,599 and that of outsiders 6,841.
So far, 38,312 patients have recovered, which constitutes 85.90% of the total cases.
There are 5,029 active cases. The number of persons home quarantined is 6,837.
On Tuesday, 519 persons were quarantined and 7,282 samples collected.
Twenty-three patients are on ventilators. Of them, 16 are from Ludhiana.