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Ludhiana: The district reported 597 new cases of Covid-19 on Sunday and 32 deaths, including twenty from Ludhiana district. On May 10 and 11, 30 people from the city had died, which was highest figures for the district.
Among the deaths, two each were from Fatehgarh Sahib, Ropar, Sangrur and Muktsar, while one each from Barnala, Pathankot, and Faridkot. The Ludhiana patients who died included a Madhopuri man of 51 and an Ashok Nagar resident of 56, who died at in the same hospital, a Shimlapuri woman of 71, who died at the civil hospital, a 50-year-old woman from near Atma Jain Hospital, Khanna woman of 61, who died at a Doraha hospital, a Khanna man of 45, who died at a Khanna hospital, a Dhandra woman of 70, who died at a city hospital, a man of 73 from Lalouri Kalan, who died at Khanna, a man of 65 years from Basti Jodhewal, a man of 54 from Haibowal Kalan,, a man of 70 from Jawaddi Kalan, a man of 32 from Pamali, a woman of 25 from Khanna, a woman of 65 from Dugri, and a woman o
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Ludhiana, April 27
A day after the bodies of two Covid patients were ferried on a cart and an auto-rickshaw for cremation without following the safety protocol, negligence on part of the Health Department in maintaining record of patients who died due to Covid has come to the fore. An inquiry has been marked into the matter by the Civil Surgeon.
Two patients Bhagwan Shah (67) of Focal Point and Kanta Rani (60) of Amarpura were admitted to the Civil Hospital, where they died on Sunday after testing positive.
After postmortem on Monday, the bodies were handed over to the families for cremation in sealed bags (with Covid positive marking), but as ambulances at the hospitals were busy, the families made own arrangements and ferried the bodies to the crematorium. Shah’s body was taken in an auto-rickshaw, while Rani’s body arrived at the crematorium on a hand-pulled cart.