Tribune News Service Ludhiana April 15 Six more persons from the district have succumbed to the virus during the past 24 hours. Also 482 fresh cases were reported today. As many as 43 persons came in contact with positive patients 98 visited OPD and 248 with influenza-like illness visited Flu Corner. Two healthcare workers cop and three with severe acute respiratory infection have tested positive for the virus. Besides 87 patients are yet to be traced. Six persons from Ludhiana — 65-year-old man from Dugri 62-year-old man from Manakwal 65-year-old woman from Vikas Nagar 57-year-old man from Haibowal Kalan 78-year-old woman from Samrala and 73-year-old man from Manuke — died of the virus. The department has also confirmed the death of one patient each from Pathankot Sangrur and Patiala districts. At present 30 patients — 20 from Ludhiana and 10 from other districts or states — have been put on ventilator support. Deputy Commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma said there were 3756 active patients in the district at present. A total of 542 patients (482 new patients from Ludhiana district and 60 from other states/districts) had tested positive in the last 24 hours. He said to date a total of 864109 samples had been taken out of which report of 863485 samples had been received. As many as 816116 samples were found negative while reports of 624 samples were pending. He said now the total number of patients belonging to Ludhiana was 40945 while 6424 patients belonged to other districts/states. As many as 1226 persons from Ludhiana and 634 from other districts had lost their live till now he said. The Deputy Commissioner appealed to the residents to adhere to all the safety protocols like wearing masks maintaining social distance and washing hands frequently.

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