Fifty-nine more persons succumbed to the deadly contagion in Punjab on Sunday, pushing the Sate’s Covid-19 death toll to 7507, while 3116 fresh cases of the novel Coronavirus took the State’s infection count to 2,72,772.
Of the total, maximum nine death were reported from Amritsar; followed by seven each from Ludhiana and Sangrur; six from Hoshiarpur; five from Jalandhar; four from SAS Nagar (Mohali); three each from Patiala, Ferozepur, Gurdaspur, Bathinda, and Tarn Taran; two each from Faridkot and Fatehgarh Sahib; and one each from Fazilka and Kapurthala.
Among the districts, Ludhiana reported the maximum 530 fresh cases; followed by SAS Nagar (Mohali) with 423, Amritsar with 274, Patiala with 260, Bathinda with 252, Jalandhar with 226, Hoshiarpur and Ropar with 130 each, Faridkot with 120, Gurdaspur with 116, Mansa with 103, among others.
Currently, the state has 27,874 active cases — accounting for 10.22 percent of the total positive cases — of which, 342 patients are on oxygen support, while 43 are critical and on ventilator support.
As of now, Mohali has the maximum number of active cases in the state. With 15.10 percent of the total positive cases (31,440), the district has 4,749 active cases; followed by Ludhiana with 3434 active cases, Jalandhar with 3126, Amritsar with 3124, Patiala with 2418, among others.
In the past 24 hours, as many as 3,121 patients were discharged after recovering from the deadly contagion, pushing the state’s total number of recoveries to 2,37,391.