Ludhiana, June 30 -- Ludhiana's COVID-19 caseload has recently seen a decline, after reaching as high as nine cases on some days in the past couple of weeks. The district has not recorded any new cases in the last two days, and on Saturday, only two new cases were reported, both described as asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic.

So far, the district has recorded 87 cases of COVID-19. The first positive cases began to surface on May 28, following the death of a 40-year-old local man in a Chandigarh hospital, who reportedly suffered from COPD, a lung disease.

Currently, there are only 23 active cases, all in home isolation, and 72 individuals have recovered. While daily cases remained low (three to four) for the first two weeks of June, the...