Punjab on Monday reported 38 new cases of coronavirus, including 13 having source of infection from outside state, taking the state’s Covid-19 infection tally to 2,301.
Of the new 38 cases, Amritsar has reported nine, followed by eight in Hoshiarpur, fiev in Fatehgarh Sahib, four each in Ludhiana and Patiala, two each in Mohali, and Bathinda, and one each from SBS Nagar (Nawanshahr), Pathankot, Gurdaspur, and Jalandhar.
As per the state’s daily health bulletin, the state’s death toll was also revised down to 44, removing one duplicate death, however it did not specify the district. Punjab currently has 257 active cases, with 2,000 people already having recovered.
Punjab’s nine districts, out of 22, — Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Tarn Taran, Gurdaspur, Hoshiarpur, Patiala, SAS Nagar and SBS Nagar — account for 69 percent of state’s total cases. While the top three districts of Ludhiana, Amritsar and Jalandhar together account for 31 percent of the state’s coronavirus death toll.
Among the nine cases from Amritsar, six were the contacts of previously diagnosed cases, two were cases categorized as ILI (influenza-like illness) and one was from the flu corner.
All eight cases reported from Hoshiarpur were the contacts of previously diagnosed cases, while Fatehgarh Sahib’s five new cases had travel histories. The cases from Bathinda, SBS Nagar and Gurdaspur also have travel histories.
Out of the four cases reported from Ludhiana, three were the contacts of already diagnosed cases, and one had a travel history. Among Patiala’s four coronavirus new cases, two were people who recently returned from abroad, one had a travel history and the last was an ASHA worker who got the infection locally.
Both of Mohali’s COVID-19 cases were contacts of already diagnosed cases, as was Jalandhar’s single reported case.
However, more positive cases were reported from Sangrur and Jalandhar later in the evening. Three people were tested positive in Sangrur in the evening, while three NRIs, who recently returned from Kuwait, have been tested positive in Jalandhar. These cases have not been added the state’s official tally as yet.