Covid count crosses 7K mark in Ludhiana

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, August 18

Covid cases in the district today crossed the 7,000 mark. With 266 more testing positive, the number of confirmed cases from Ludhiana has reached 7,089.

Today eight persons lost their lives and the death toll has reached 262. The number of patients on ventilator has risen to 26. Today, 448 persons were sent for home quarantine and 2,356 samples were collected.

Those who lost their lives today include four males and four females. A 27-year-old male from Thareke village lost his life to the virus and a 45-year-old female from Kot Mangal Singh also succumbed to the virus. Others are in the age group of 50-60 years and belong to Chak Sarvan Nath village, Aman Nagar, Model Town Extension, Vishkarma Colony and Durga Colony.

Those who tested positive today include AIG, Crime, Ludhiana range, nine other cops, 88 from flu corner, 70 contacts of positive persons, 37 from OPD, eight healthcare workers. Tracing of 40 persons is still under progress.

The management of Shri Krishna Charitable Hospital, Model Town, today added 20 new beds to their Covid care centre.

To tackle the pandemic in the region, mass media teams on Tuesday turned up to the next phase of their campaign in which they made people aware of getting their sampling done.

The mass media teams are clearing queries of people and urging them to get their sampling done. With more sampling, more people can be cured at the initial stage. Sampling is important to break the chain of the virus.

Dr Rajesh Kumar Bagga, Civil Surgeon, Ludhiana, said as asymptomatic persons were also coming positive now, maximum sampling was the only way to ascertain whether the person had contracted the virus or not. Hence, to rule out any suspicion, the department had increased its testing capacity extensively.

The district administration has also developed a mobile app, ‘Home Isolation Ludhiana’, through which Covid patients can apply for home isolation by sitting at their homes.

Earlier, the residents who were tested positive for Covid, had to visit government hospitals for applying for home isolation, but now they can do so by simply using the app.

Weblink where residents can check real time status of vacant and occupied beds in all hospitals:

https://ludhiana.nic.in/notice/covid-19-bed-status-in-ludhiana-district/