Punjab on Friday reported 2,817 fresh cases of the novel coronavirus besides 62 casualties, pushing the State’s Covid-19 tally to 92,833, and the death toll to 2,708. Friday’s infection tally is the second highest the Sstate has witnessed in a single day. Only a day before, as many as 2,896 cases were reported in a span of 24 hours.
Maximum number of infections were reported from Ludhiana with 437 new cases of Covid-19, followed by Amritsar with 401 cases, SAS Nagar (Mohali) with 312, Jalandhar with 307, Patiala 219, Hoshiarpur 163, Gurdaspur 131, Pathankot 119, Bathinda 105, Kapurthala 85, Fazilka 73, Faridkot 69, Ferozepur 57, Sangrur 55, Tarn Taran 49, Muktsar 43, Barnala 43, Ropar 42, Mansa 42, Fatehgarh Sahib 32, SBS Nagar (Nawanshahr) with 27 cases, and Moga with six.
As many as seven districts of the state have active cases in four-digit figure - SAS Nagar (Mohali) has the highest with 2,613, followed by Jalandhar with 2,435, Patiala (2,139), Ludhiana (1,898), Bathinda (1,670), Amritsar (1,566), and Gurdaspur (1,537) - accounting for 63.97 per cent of the total active cases in the State, and 14.93 per cent of the total positive cases reported till date in the State. Punjab has 21,662 active cases, which is 23.33 per cent of the total cases. Among these, 501 patients are on oxygen support; while 76 are critical and on ventilator support.
Among the Covid-19 fatalities, Ludhiana reported highest with 12 new deaths; followed by 10 in Jalandhar; seven in Hoshiarpur; six in SAS Nagar (Mohali); five in Patiala; two each in Amritsar, Barnala, Gurdaspur, Kapurthala, Muktsar, SBS Nagar, Sangrur, and Tarn Taran; and one each in Bathinda, Faridkot, Fatehgarh Sahib, Moga, Pathankot, and Ropar.
A total of 2,645 coronavirus patients - including 382 from Gurdaspur, 228 from Mohali, 223 from Kapurthala, 208 from Amritsar, 206 from Patiala, 174 from Jalandhar, 113 from Bathinda, 100 from Hoshiarpur, among others — were discharged in the last 24 hours after recovering from the contagion. With this, the total number of recoveries has increased to 68,463 -73.75 per cent.
23 more die in Haryana; State reports 2,488 fresh cases
Haryana on Friday reported 23 more Covid-19 fatalities, taking the death toll to 1,092, while 2,488 fresh cases pushed the infection count in the State to 1,06,261. Of the 23 fatalities, three each were from Gurgaon and Panchkula. Two each persons died in Faridabad, Ambala, Hisar, Kurukshetra, Sirsa and Yamunanagar while one death each took place in Fatehabad, Bhiwani, Jhajjar, Karnal and Rohtak, according to the health department’s daily bulletin.
Among the districts which reported a big spike in coronavirus cases included Gurugram (339), Faridabad (287), Sonipat (171), Hisar (167), Panchkula (157), Kurukshetra (131) and Sirsa (121). The active cases in the State currently are 21,291, while 83,878 have been discharged after recovery, as per the bulletin. As of Friday, the state has a recovery rate of 78.94 per cent. The fatality rate is 1.03 per cent while the rate at which infections are doubling is 27 days. The Covid-19 positivity rate is 6.57 per cent, it stated.