Tribune News Service Ludhiana May 7 As many as 1464 persons tested positive for Covid while 20 lost their lives to the virus in the district today. Those who tested positive included two healthcare workers and 358 are still untraceable. Six women and 14 men belonging to various parts of the district lost their lives. At present there are 11212 active patients in the district. A total of 1615 patients (1465 new patients from Ludhiana district and 150 from other states/districts) tested positive in the last 24 hours. Till date a total of 1052381 samples have been taken out of which the reports of 1052006 samples have been received. As many as 979200 samples were found negative while reports of 375 samples are pending. The total number of patients belonging to Ludhiana is 64043 while 8763 patients belong to other districts/states. He said unfortunately 31 patients lost their lives today (20 from Ludhiana district while one each from Sangrur Barnala Fatehgarh Sahib Hoshiarpur Haryana and Uttar Pradesh and five from Delhi). Now the total number of persons who lost their lives to Covid is 1509 from Ludhiana and 763 from other districts. Dr Bishav Mohan senior cardiologist from the DMCH said heart patients should go in for vaccination and there was no need to stop the medicines they were taking. “Always wear a mask properly and maintain social distance” said Dr Mohan. Today 8726 persons were vaccinated at different government session sites in the district.

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