No death, 53 test positive in Ludhiana

Tribune News Service
Ludhiana, June 25

For the second consecutive day, the district reported no additional deaths from Covid-19 while 43 people tested positive for the disease. The total confirmed cases of Covid in the district have reached 86,824 while the death count stands at 2,080.

The recovery rate has reached 97.1 per cent in the district while the case fatality rate now is 2.4 per cent. Today, there were 440 active cases in the district.

Delta plus variant detected in 62-yr-old man

• One case of Delta Plus variant, classified as a variant of concern (VoC), has been confirmed from Jhand village. The person who has tested positive is a 62-year-old man, an ex-servicemen from the Army. The family consists of six members. Both husband and wife had tested positive for Covid and recovered after 10 days. When they got themselves re-tested, the husband’s sample was found to be Delta Plus variant, the Health Department confirmed.

Those who tested positive today included eight under trials, one healthcare worker while ten persons are still to be traced.

Today, as many as 308 people were under home-isolation, 66 were admitted to private hospitals, 23 were admitted to government hospitals and 17 persons were on ventilator support.

A total of 10,844 samples were collected in the district today while the results of 69 samples taken yesterday are pending.

The Civil Surgeon, Dr Kiran Gill, said the main motive of the Health Department is to motivate people to get vaccinated. He said mass media wing teams are visiting different areas of the city to raise awareness about the disease.