Ludhiana district leads state with highest count of 7,804 Covid active cases

Nitin Jain

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, May 24

Even as Ludhiana has made a turnaround from being the worst-hit to the safest district in the state with a massive dip in the positivity rate within the last 20 days, it continues to lead the state with the highest count of the active Covid cases.

Of the total 7,804 active cases in the district on May 24, almost 70 per cent were home isolated in the rural areas. This was fourth highest in the state, the analysis done by the Health and Family Welfare department has revealed. While 6,323 active cases were in home isolation, 989 patients were admitted to hospitals — 152 in government and 837 in private institutions.

The comparative data of home isolation patients in rural and urban areas, which is available with The Tribune, showed that 69.56 per cent of the total active home isolation cases of Ludhiana were in rural areas, while the remaining 30.42 per cent were in the urban areas.

The state’s average of rural active cases in home isolation was recorded at 44.8 per cent, while 55.2 per cent of the total active cases were in home isolation in the urban areas of the state.

The districts with higher infected rural population than Ludhiana were Nawanshahr, which was at the top with the highest 72.05 per cent active home isolation cases in its villages, followed by Tarn Taran with 72.73 per cent rural infections, and Amritsar with 72 per cent Covid positive villagers under home isolation.

Mohali recorded the lowest of 6.31 per cent of villagers infected with the deadly virus put under home isolation and maximum of 93.69 per cent of its active cases in home isolation were present in the urban areas.

Those with lower active cases in home isolation in rural areas than Ludhiana included Hoshiarpur 66.61 per cent, Sangrur 60.04 per cent, Fazilka 58.23 per cent, Mansa 56.5 per cent, Pathankot 55.15 per cent, Ropar 51.15 per cent, Kapurthala 48.71 per cent, Moga 47.28 per cent, Bathinda 44.71 per cent, Gurdaspur 44.6 per cent, Ferozepur 43.18 per cent, Barnala 41 per cent, Fatehgarh Sahib 40.47 per cent, Muktsar 35.02 per cent, Patiala 31.27 per cent, Jalandhar 30.01 per cent, and Faridkot recorded the state’s second lowest 24.84 per cent of its rural active cases in home isolation.

When it comes to total active cases, Mohali stood second in the state with 5,663 active cases, followed by Bathinda 5,550, Jalandhar 4,674, Amritsar 4,121, Muktsar 3,842, Fazilka 3,545, Patiala 3,051, Hoshairpur 2,208, Mansa 2,081, Pathankot 1,887, Sangrur 1,658, Ferozepur 1,654, Gurdaspur 1,458, Faridkot 1,428, Kapurthala 1,193, Fatehgarh Sahib 1,012, Ropar 916, Moga 881, Nawanshahr 724, Tarn Taran 674, and Barnala registered the lowest of 668 active cases in the state.

The state recorded a total of 57,505 active cases as on May 23.