Ludhiana: The district on Wednesday added another defiance of the law against pre-natal diagnostic techniques to its inglorious list of sins compiled .
Ludhiana: The district recorded its highest single-day Covid-19 case count of 995 on Friday. A day before, 880 residents the second highest tally were confirmed to have contracted the disease.
As per the health department bulletin, 13 Covid deaths were reported on the day. Of them, eight were residents of Ludhiana and one each of Barnala, Jalandhar, Faridkot, Delhi and Jharkhand.
The district casualties included a 56-year-old diabetic man of Mohan Singh Nagar, a 66-year-old diabetic man of Basti Jodhewal, a 78-year-old diabetic woman of Madhuvan Enclave, a 61-year-old man of Basant Avenue, Dugri, with hypertension, a 51-year-old man of Mundiyan Kalan, a 62-year-old man of Ludhiana with hypertension and coronary artery disease, a 65-year-old woman of Khanna with hypertension, and a 36-year-old diabetic man of Hambhara village.
Ludhiana: Ten residents of Ludhiana died of Covid-19 and 758 tested positive on Monday.
According to the health department bulletin, a patient each of Amritsar, Kapurthala, Moga and Bathinda, too, succumbed to the disease at the city hospitals.
The district casualties included a 62-year-old man of Mundiyan Kalan, a 57-year-old woman of Lahul village, a 59-year-old man of Deharka village, a 30-year-old man of Shimlapuri, a 63-year-old man of Basti Jodhewal, a 42-year-old man of Sherpur, a 45-year-old man of Dhandari Kalan, a 38-year-old man of Giaspura, a 60-year-old man of Lassara village, and a woman, 60, of Dholewal.
Civil surgeon Dr Sukhjivan Kakkar said the district’s fatality figure has increased to 1,253 and that of outsiders to 647.