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The district casualties included a 51-year-old man of Talwandi Kalan and a 56-year-old woman of Gill village.
Civil surgeon Dr Kiran Ahluwalia said the district’s toll has increased to 2,083 and that of outsiders here to 1,038.
To date, 16,94,153 persons have been tested.
Five patients from outside Ludhiana, too, tested positive here.
The local health department officials said the district’s case count is 86,923 and that of outsiders here is 11,488.
So far, 84,475 patients have recovered, which constitutes 97.18% of the total cases.
There are 365 active cases. On Monday, 8,969 samples were collected.
Eleven patients are on ventilators. Of them, five are of Ludhiana.
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Ludhiana: A man of Ludhiana district died of Covid-19 and 72, including four students and three teachers, tested positive on Wednesday.
As per the local media bulletin, the 75-year-old deceased was a resident of Ram Nagar in Khanna. He had hypertension and died at a city hospital.
Civil surgeon Dr Sukhjivan Kakkar said the district toll tally has increased to 1,031 and that of outsiders stood at 510.
To date, 6,75,958 persons have been tested.
Of the 72 new cases, 43 were from flu corner, seven from OPD, four positive cases’ contacts, seven through tracing process, two health workers and two pre-operative cases. Besides, four students (one each of a government school in Hambran and a private school in Talwandi Kalan and two of a private school in Khanna) and three teachers (one from a private school in Jassowal and two of Government Senior Secondary School in Hambran) have contracted the virus. Fourteen outsiders, too, tested positive here.
5185 Students wait for their turn for the Covid test at a government school in Ludhiana. Inderjeet Verma
Tribune News Service
Ludhiana, March 3
Covid has claimed the life of a 75-year-old man, a resident of Ram Nagar, Khanna, in Ludhiana district on Wednesday. Besides, 72 fresh cases of the virus have been confirmed in the district.
Of the positive cases confirmed today, there are four students, which include one each from Government Senior Secondary School, Hambran; Mahant Laxman Das Senior Secondary School, Talwandi Kalan; and two from AS Model Senior Secondary School in Khanna. Three teachers, including one from Harvest School, Jassowal, and two teachers from Government Senior Secondary School, Hambran, are also among the positive cases.