Ludhiana, March 13
Ludhiana’s coronavirus cases climbed steeply on Saturday, with district reporting 220 cases in the last 24 hours, district health officials said—numbers not seen in the district since last September.
District officials also reported five deaths in the past 24 hours.
Ludhiana, which was one of the hardest hit in the first wave of COVID-19 last year, has been witnessing a worrying rise in cases over the past week. The worry developments of the past few days have led the district administration to step up its COVID-19 measures—including imposing a night curfew between 11 pm and 5 am.
Saturday’s cases included 26 students, four teachers and two healthcare workers. The development have taken the district’s COVID-19 cases to 33,176—4,540 of who are people from outside the state. Death toll stands at 1,577, including 527 from other districts.
The district’s active cases now stand at 1,033.
