Nitin Jain Tribune News Service Ludhiana August 19 With eight more students and staffers testing positive for Covid in the last two days the count of students and staffers testing positive after the opening of schools in the state has gone up to 50 of which maximum 22 cases are from Ludhiana the government has confirmed. Even as the daily testing in the schools has almost doubled on Wednesday the positivity rate has dipped by half from 0.04 per cent on Tuesday to 0.02 per cent on Wednesday the official figures have revealed. The data compiled by the state government a copy of which is available with The Tribune showed that 11109 students and staffers across schools in 22 districts were tested on Tuesday of which four turned positive at the hit rate of 0.04 per cent while the testing figure shot up to 19414 on Wednesday and the positive cases remained four bringing down the positivity rate to 0.02 per cent. While one case each was reported in Ludhiana Amritsar Moga and Muktsar on Wednesday one case each was logged in Ludhiana Ferozepur Nawanshahr and Sangrur on Tuesday. The government had launched a testing campaign in schools after 20 students from two schools in Ludhiana had tested positive on August 10. The cumulative data of testing in government schools compiled by the Health and Family Welfare Department suggested that 50 of the total 71332 students and staffers tested in 22 districts have been found Covid positive so far accounting for 0.07 per cent positivity rate. Ludhiana tested maximum of 12432 students and staffers of which 22 turned positive followed by two positive cases of 7237 tested in Amritsar nine of 3964 in Bathinda two of 3988 in Muktsar one of 3302 in Sangrur two of 2938 in Ferozepur three of 2707 in Fazilka one of 2273 in Fatehgarh Sahib three of 2210 in Nawanshahr three of 1050 in Faridkot one of 2429 in Hoshiarpur and one of 1494 tested positive in Moga. However 10 districts — Jalandhar which tested 5712 students and staffers Gurdaspur 4617 Mansa 2151 Patiala 2133 Tarn Taran 2099 Barnala 1641 Kapurthala 1516 Pathankot 1252 Ropar 1183 and Mohali which tested 736 students and staffers have reported no positive case so far.

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