Ludhiana reports 245 new COVID-19 cases, one death

Tribune News Service
Ludhiana, March 14

Ludhiana reported 242 new coronavirus cases and one new death in the last 24 hours, district officials said on Sunday.

The district hasn’t seen such infection since September last year.

Ludhiana, which was among Punjab’s hardest hit last year when the first wave of COVID-19 hit the state, has been showing a worrying rise in case in the last one week—a development that comes even as vaccination effort continues in an effort to break the virus transmission.

Among the district’s latest cases were 10 students, five teachers and two health care workers. Forty-five of the 242 new cases came from outside the district. The district also reported a new death on Sunday—a resident of Moga district.  

The latest addition takes Ludhiana’s COVID-19 cases to 33,418 of which 4,585 were people from other districts. The death toll stands at 1,578—528 of which were people from other districts.

Active cases now stand at 1,204, including 127 from outside the district.

Rising cases in the district has led the administration to impose a night curfew from 11 pm to 5 am.