ludhiana in view of the rising number of covid19 cases in the district punjab sports department has taken the decision to not resume athletic practice sessions at guru nanak dev stadium for next few days and given strict instruction to local coaches to give more focus on online training sessionsthere are almost 15 training centres in the district which have not been functional for the past four months owing to outbreak of covid19 in the country and enforcement of strict lock down across the nation after receiving instruction local sports department officials had held a meeting with local coaches and made them aware about the latest guidelines and asked them to continue their training sessions through digital modedistrict sport officer ravinder singh said as per the new instruction of higher authorities of state sports department local coaches are focusing on online training sessions as a precautionary measure local sports officials have also taken the decision of not resuming the practice session at guru nanak dev stadium because several cases of covid19 have been reported in the city in the past few days