Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, June 27

Thirtytwo persons tested positive for Covid while no death was reported in the district today. Recovery rate of Covid patients has reached 97.15 per cent.

At present, there are 397 active patients in the district and a total of 35 patients (32 new patients from Ludhiana district and three from other states/districts) have tested positive in the past 24 hours.

The total number of patients related to Ludhiana is 86,888 while 11,483 patients belong to other districts and states and the total number of persons who lost their lives include 2,081 persons from Ludhiana and 1,038 from other districts.

Till date, a total of 16,85,184 samples have been taken, of which reports of 16,85,133 have been received. Of these, 15,86,762 samples were tested negative while reports of 51 samples were pending.

Deputy Commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma said whenever the district administration and the Health Department, Ludhiana, find out about any positive or suspected Covid person, their samples were sent for testing. As many as 11,583 samples of suspected patients were sent for testing today and their results were expected shortly.

He also appealed to residents to adhere to all Covid safety protocols of the state government to save themselves from the deadly virus.