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Nitin JainTribune News ServiceLudhiana May 4Even as the second Covid wave continues to rapidly slide into a devastating crisis the Ludhiana district continues to lead the state in testing and tracing of the virus patients. While Ludhiana stood second in the antigen testing by conducting 51.2 per cent such tests in the last week the district ranked third in the contact tracing a key method to break virus spread chain by tracing 18.3 per cent contacts of each Covid patient reported in April. In both the parameters Ludhiana scored over the state's average of 37.7 per cent antigen testing between April 25 and May 1 and 16 per cent contact tracing in April revealed the data compiled by the Health and Family Welfare Department a copy of which is with The Tribune. On the antigen testing front Bathinda topped the state with maximum 55.3 per cent tests while all other districts except Ludhiana reported less than 50 per cent antigen testing. Among other districts Muktsar recorded 48.6 per cent antigen testing Fatehgarh Sahib 47.8 per cent Jalandhar 41.4 Gurdaspur 39.4 Amritsar 39.2 Kapurthala 36.6 Faridkot 36.4 Patiala 35.9 Mohali 34.6 Nawanshahr 33.3 Fazilka 32.8 Hoshiarpur 30.7 Moga 29.4 Tarn Taran 25.5 Ferozepur 25 Ropar 22.5 Pathankot 19.7 Barnala 18.9 and Sangrur reported the lowest 10.7 per cent antigen testing..