Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, December 17

Two persons tested positive for Covid, while no loss of life due to the disease was reported in the district today.

The recovery rate of Covid-19 patients has reached 97.55 per cent and there are 30 active cases in the district at present. Twenty-six patients were asked to undergo home isolation today.

Till date, a total of 29,65,165 samples for Covid test have been taken, of which 28,65,697 samples were found negative. The total number of patients belonging to Ludhiana is 87,715, while 11,753 patients belong to other districts/states.

The total number of patients who lost their lives to Covid here is 2,116 from Ludhiana and 1,061 from other districts.

Samples of 4,772 suspected patients were sent for testing today and their results are expected shortly.