Covid-19: 582 test +ve, 17 succumb in Ludhiana district
Tribune News Service
Ludhiana, May 22
As many as 582 persons tested positive for Covid, while 17 persons from the district lost their lives today. The total confirmed cases in the district reached 80,421, while death toll is 1,854 since the first death was reported in March 2020. At present there are 9,355 active cases in the district.
Joint CP, wife, son catch infection
- Ludhiana’s Joint Commissioner of Police J Elanchezhian, his wife and son have tested positive for Covid and all are under home isolation.
- A Ludhiana police ASI, Sanjeev Kumar, succumbed to the virus. He was posted at the Control Room. After testing positive he was admitted to the DMCH, where he breathed his last.
Those who tested positive include three expectant mothers and a healthcare worker. As many as 123 patients are still untraceable.
Five women and 12 men lost their lives. Four deceased belonged to Natt village, Machhiwara, Dhamot village and Hassanpur village, while the remaining persons were from urban areas.
As many as 189 patients were admitted to government hospitals and 937 to private hospitals. As many as 51 patients were on ventilator support.
According to the Health Department, 14,580 samples were collected from the district.
Meanwhile Civil Surgeon, Ludhiana, Dr Kiran Gill held a special meeting with the sarpanches of Bhattian Bet, Kutbewal Raian, Chuharpur, Hussainpur, Jassian, etc, at Ambedkar Bhawan in Bhattian Bet village.
Dr Gill apprised the sarpanches of the importance of early detection of Covid and vaccination for its control.
“Anyone who develops symptoms such as fever, sore throat, diarrhoea, headache, shortness of breath, etc, must be tested for Covid as soon as possible so that the disease can be diagnosed in time and such a person could be isolated and the disease could be prevented from spreading further,” she said.
They were also made aware of vaccination. Their questions about vaccination were answered. They were encouraged to make their villages hundred per cent vaccinated.
