Punjab recorded 25 more Covid-19 fatalities pushing the death toll to 3798, while 858 new cases took the state’s infection tally to 1,23317 on Saturday, according to a medical bulletin.
The latest fatalities reported in the state include four coronavirus death each in Jalandhar, three each from Amritsar, Gurdaspur Ludhiana, Patiala; two each from Hoshiarpur, Sangrur, Tarn Taran and one each from FG Sahib, Kapurthala and SBS Nagar, the bulletin said.
The places which reported new cases include SAS Nagar (125), Gurudaspur (109), Jalandhar (77), Ludhiana (43) and Amritsar (69), it said. There are 9752 active Covid-19 cases in the state as of now, according to the bulletin.
A total of 1234 coronavirus patients were discharged after recovering from infection, taking the number of cured people to 1,09,767, it said. Forty five critical patients are on ventilator support while 194 are on oxygen support, the bulletin said. A total of 21,17713 samples have been collected for testing so far in the state, it said.