Ludhiana: As many as 105 residents tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday. They included seven students and four teachers.
As per the local media bulletin, the disease claimed the life of a Jalandhar patient at a city hospital.
Civil surgeon Dr Sukhjivan Kakkar the district toll tally stood at 1,034 and that of outsiders has risen to 514.
To date 6,84,099 persons have been tested.
Of the 105 new cases, 33 were from flu corner, 14 from OPD, 24 contacts of positive patients, 18 through tracing process, two health workers, and two severe acute respiratory infection cases.
Besides, seven students (one each of a government multipurpose school and a private school in BRS Nagar, 3 college students, two kids of Government Smart School in Halwara) and four teachers (three of a school in Jamalpur and one of a government school in Kot Mangal Singh), too, have contracted the virus. As many as 22 outsiders also tested positive.