The coronavirus death toll rose to 5,553 in Punjab on Saturday with 10 more fatalities, while 212 new infections took the caseload to 171,733. There are 2293 active cases and the number of recoveries rose to 163,887 lakh after 232 more people recuperated, according to a medical bulletin.
The new infections include 39 cases in SAS Nagar, 29 cases each in Ludhiana, and Patiala, 25 in Jalandhar and 21 in Hoshiarpur. Eleven critical patients are on ventilator support, while 77 are on oxygen support, the bulletin said.
A total of 43.48, 641 samples have been collected for testing so far, it said.
4 DEATHS, 136 FRESH CASES IN HARYANA
Haryana on Saturday reported four coronavirus deaths, taking the fatality count to 3,009 even as 136 fresh cases pushed the State’s infection tally to 2,67,075, a health bulletin showed. According to the State health department’s daily bulletin, two fatalities were reported from Palwal while one fatality each from Bhiwani and Sonepat. Among other districts to report new cases included Gurugram (24) and Faridabad (23). The number of active cases in the state were 1559, as many as 2,62,507 have so far been discharged after being cured of the infection, while the recovery rate was 98.29 percent.
ONE DEATH, 22 FRESH CASES IN CHANDIGARH
The Covid-19 death toll in Chandigarh rose to 333 on Saturday with one more fatality, while 22 new cases pushed the infection count to 20,686, a medical bulletin stated. There are 127 active cases currently, as per bulletin. A total of 31 patients were discharged after they recovered from infection, taking the overall recoveries to 20,226. A total of 207,047 samples have been taken for testing so far and of them, 185,419 have tested negative while reports of 129 samples were awaited, as per the bulletin.