Nitin Jain

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, June 5

Today the active Covid cases have recorded the lowest count in 70 days in Ludhiana district, giving a much-needed sigh of relief and showing the signs of gradual retreat besides plateauing of the impact of the devastating second Covid wave.

The count of active virus patients dropped considerably to 2,827 on June 5, which was lowest after March 27 when the district had logged 2,776 active cases.

Since then, the active cases were on a constant high and had touched a record high of 13,217 on May 16. This was the highest number of active cases registered in any district of Punjab so far.

The increasing trend of active cases was evident from the fact that the figure kept rising with each passing day for the past two months.

From 2,776 on March 27, the active cases went up to 2,853 on March 28; 2,889 on March 29; 2,858 on March 30; 2,937 on March 31 and April 1; 2,943 on April 2; 2,918 on April 3; 2,834 on April 4; 2,835 on April 5; 2,876 on April 6; 2,987 on April 7; 3,147 on April 8; 3,293 on April 9; 3,298 on April 10; 3,434 on April 11; 3,381 on April 12; 3,391 on April 13; 3,501 on April 14; 3,756 on April 15; 3,817 on April 16; 4,277 on April 17; 4,444 on April 18; 4,704 on April 19; 5,029 on April 20; 5,292 April on 21; 5,829 on April 22; 6,252 on April 23; 6,620 on April 24; 7,117 on April 25; 7,112 on April 26; 7,462 on April 27; 7,853 on April 28; 8,012 on April 29; and 7,790 on April 30.

The month of May played mayhem with the count of active virus patients breaking all previous records and touching a new high. From 8,839 on May 1, the figure kept rising to 9,870 on May 2; 10,309 on May 3; 10,316 on May 4; 10,778 on May 5; 11,022 on May 6; 11,212 on May 7; 11,368 on May 8; 12,047 on May 9; 11,194 on May 10; 11,480 on May 11; 12,278 on May 12; 12,266 on May 13; 12,586 on May 14; 12,832 on May 15; and reached a record high of 13,217 on May 16.

However, the reverse trend of decline in the active cases started from May 17 when 12,837 active patients were logged in the district and it started receding to 12,371 on May 18; 11,373 on May 19; 10,687 on May 20; 9,988 on May 21; 9,355 on May 22; 8,617 on May 23; 7,804 on May 24; 7,133 on May 25; 6,629 on May 26; 6,189 on May 27; 5,614 on May 28; 5,226 on May 29; 4,740 on May 30; and reached 4,276 on May 31.

The month of June started from 3,604 active cases on the first day, further dropping to 3,604 on June 2; 3,325 on June 3; 3,064 on June 4 and 2,827 on June 5.