Covid claims 12 lives, infects 298

Ludhiana: Twelve residents of Ludhiana died of Covid-19 and 298 tested positive on Sunday.
As per the health department bulletin, 19 deaths were reported on the day. Of these, 12 patients were of the district, two of Sangrur and one each of Amritsar, Kapurthala, Moga, Malerkotla and Patiala.
The district casualties included a 55-year-old man of Salem Tabri, a 30-year-old man of Noorwala Road, a 71-year-old man of Sehjad village, a 45-yaer-old man of Bachhitter Nagar, a 27-year-old woman of Mansuran village, a 53-year-old man of Guru Nanak Dev Nagar, a 57-year-old woman of Lehal village in Payal, a 63-year-old man of Rupalo village, a 69-year-old man of Sekha village, a 44-year-old man of Jagraon, a 67-year-old man of Khanna, and a 60-year-old woman of Sehjad village.
Civil surgeon Dr Kiran Ahluwalia said the district’s casualty count is 1,991 and that of outsiders is 984.
To date, 13,57,786 persons have been tested.
As many as 57 patients from outside Ludhiana too tested positive here.
The district case count is 83,892 and that of outsiders 10,954.
To date, 77,161 patients have recovered, which constitutes 91.98% of the total cases.
There are 4,740 active cases. On Sunday, 14,275 samples were collected.
Forty-one patients are on ventilators. Of them, 25 are of Ludhiana.