Punjab on Friday as registred its steepest spike in a single day with 3,459 cases, pushing the State’s infection count to 2,66,494. The previous single day highest spike was reported on April 1 with the State registering 3,187 infections.
The State’s positivity rate on Friday was recorded at 8.37 percent. The State’s death rate has reached 2.77 per cent with the State registering 56 casualties in the past 24 hours, taking the State’s death toll to 7,390.
Number of active cases has jumped to 27,219 — accounting for 10.21 percent of the total positive cases in the State.
Among the districts, Mohali reported the maximum 629 cases, followed by 502 in Jalandhar, 438 in Ludhiana, 329 in Amritsar and 245 in Patiala, among others.
Maximum nine people died in Amritsar, followed by six each in Hoshiarpur and Patiala; and four each in Gurdaspur, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, and Mohali.
Besides, three each deaths were reported from Kapurthala and Ropar; two each from Bathinda, Faridkot, and Nawanshahr; and one each from Fatehgarh Sahib, Fazilka, Ferozepur, Muktsar, and Sangrur.
A total of 2,518 coronavirus patients were discharged after recovering from the infection, taking the number of cured people to 2,31,885.
As per the bulletin, there are 43 critical patients who are on ventilator while 406 are on oxygen support.