Tribune News Service Ludhiana July 11 Today 24 persons from Ludhiana tested positive for Covid while no death was reported in the district. There were 160 active cases. Total positive cases in the district have reached 87145 while 2088 have lost their lives so far. The recovery rate has gone to 97.42 per cent. Today 24 patients were admitted to private and government hospitals and four were on ventilator support. A total of 1824349 samples have been taken of which 1725641 were found negative. Today samples of 10172 persons were collected. Civil Surgeon Kiran Gill said now that covid cases were going down people should not adopt a callous approach. “They should adopt all necessary precautions and avoid going to crowded places so that we can continue to keep the Covid curve down” Dr Gill said. Deputy Commissioner Varinder Sharma said: “Despite cases started to ebb there was a greater need to be vigilant as the virus was still among us and we have to be cautious.” He asked people to continue to adopt a Covid-19 appropriate behaviour including wearing masks maintaining social distancing and hand hygiene.

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