Punjab on Thursday reported the steepest rise in the past 24 hours with 1741 fresh cases of the novel coronavirus, besides 37 deaths, pushing the state’s Covid-19 tally to 37,824, and death toll to 957.
Ludhiana reported 10 deaths, besides five each in Mohali, Patiala, and Sangrur, three in Jalandhar, two in Amritsar, Nawanshahr, and Hoshiarpur, and one each in Gurdaspur, Kapurthala, and Muktsar.
Continuing the previous trend, Ludhiana reported the highest number of cases with 398, followed by Jalandhar 242, SAS Nagar 169, Bathinda 148, Ferozepur 133, Moga 94, Amritsar 75, Barnala 58, Fazilka 46, Faridkot 41, Ropar and Fatehgarh 33 each, Tarn Taran 32, Sangrur 28, Pathankot 22, Muktsar and Gurdaspur 20 each, Kapurthala 19, Hoshiarpur and Mansa 18, and SBS Nagar 13.
Among the fresh positive cases are 31 police personnel — including 18 from Ferozepur, five from Ludhiana, four from Tarn Taran, two from Kapurtahala, and one each from Fazilka and Mohali, other than two prisoners from Kapurthala.
In the past 24 hours, total 334 patients have been discharged, taking the number of total recoveries 23,037, with the state still having 13,830 active cases of which 345 patients are on oxygen support while 39 are critical and on ventilator support.