Punjab is breaking its record of highest single day spike every day, with the state reporting a surge of 692 fresh cases on Tuesday, pushing the Covid-19 tally to 14,378. As the State breached 14,000-mark, it also reported highest number of deaths in a single day with 19 casualties reported in the past 24 hours, taking the COVID-19 death toll to 336.
For the third consecutive day, Ludhiana continued to report maximum number of cases and deaths with the district reporting 142 fresh cases and six deaths, taking the district’s tally to 2,724 and death toll to 70.
Of the 19 deaths, three each were reported from from Tarn Taran, Patiala, Sangrur, and Amritsar and one from Hoshiarpur, other than six from Ludhiana.
Other than 142 in Ludhiana, 73 fresh cases were reported in Amritsar, 66 in Patiala, 57 in Jalandhar, 37 in Ferozepur, 35 in Bathinda, 30 each in Sangrur and Mohali, 26 in Rupnagar, and 24 each in Gurdaspur and Kapurthala, 22 in Fazilka, 17 in Moga, 14 in Tarn Taran, three each in Pathankot and Fatehgarh Sahib, two each in SBS Nagar, Hoshiarpur and Faridkot, and one each in Barnala, Muktsar and Mansa.
In Mohali, Punjab School Education Board (PSEB)’s controller of examination Janak Raj Mehrok has been tested positive for COVID-19. The Health Department has sealed his office on the third floor of the PSEB building in Phase VIII. Samples of his immediate contacts in the office have been taken and they have been directed to remain home quarantined.
A total of 688 coronavirus patients were discharged from hospitals after recovery in the last 24 hours.