Witnessing the biggest single day spike on 534 cases on Sunday, Punjab breached not only 13,000-mark in terms of total positive cases in the state, but also surpassed 300-figure in terms of total casualties in the state with 534 fresh cases and 15 deaths recorded in the past 24 hours.
With this huge surge, the State’s Covid-19 tally stood at 13,218, with a total 306 patients succumbing to the deadly contagion.
Ludhiana accounts for the highest number of cases and deaths reported on Sunday with 95 fresh infections and five deaths in a day. The remaining deaths were reported from Amritsar, Gurdaspur, and Ropar (two each), and one each from Jalandhar, SAS Nagar (Mohali), Bathinda and SBS Nagar (Nawanshahr).
Besides Ludhiana, Patiala reporting whopping 83 cases, followed by 70 from Jalandhar, 45 from Amritsar, 42 from Hoshiarpur, 28 from Mohali, 27 from Bathinda, 24 from Fazilka, 17 from Sangrur, 16 from Gurdaspur, 15 from Tarn Taran, 12 each from Ferozepur and Pathankot, 10 from Fatehgarh Sahib, nine from Barnala, seven from
Rupnagar, six each from Kapurthala and Mansa, four from SBS Nagar, two each from Muktsar and Moga and one from Faridkot.
Among the fresh cases, 207 have the contact history, including 19 Border Security Force (BSF) troopers in Hoshiarpur; and 17 have the travel history to other states or countries, even as the state health authorities are yet to compile the details of all the cases reported from Jalandhar.
Of the remaining, 237 positive cases have no travel or contact history and categorized as “new” cases, including 38 cops, 13 healthcare workers, none frontline workers, six jail inmates, one Border Security Force personnel, besides 56 with the Influenza-like Illness (ILI), 32 from the out-patient department (OPD), three with Severe Acute Respiratory Illness (SARI), among others.
Among the 38 police personnel tested positive, one police official has been afflicted from contagion in Amritsar, eight cops from Gurdaspur, six from Mohali, five from Ludhiana, three each from Patiala, Tarn Taran, and Fazilka; two each from Barnala and Ropar; and one from Fatehgarh Sahib.
As many 513 new patients — 225 from Patiala, 182 from Ludhiana, 31 from Amritsar, 29 from Faridkot, 11 from SAS Nagar (Mohali), seven from Pathankot, six from Fazilka, four each from SBS Nagar (Nawanshahr), Ferozepur and Fatehgarh Sahib, two each from Gurdaspur, Moga, Bathinda, Muktsar, and one each from Hoshiarpur and Tarn Taran—were discharged on Sunday, taking the total number of recoveries to 8,810 at the rate of 67 percent.
With this, the State now has 4102 active cases — 31 percent of the total positive cases — of which 105 patients are on oxygen support, while 20 are critical and on ventilator support.
Ludhiana continued to top the COVID-19 tally with 2,415 cases, followed by 2,009 in Jalandhar, 1,539 in Amritsar, 1,377 in Patiala, 941 in Sangrur, 707 in Mohali, 493 in Hoshiarpur, 378 in Gurdaspur, 323 in Pathankot, 295 in SBS Nagar, 296 in Ferozepur, 287 in Bathinda, 286 in Fatehgarh Sahib, 277 in Tarn Taran, 267 in Moga, 259 in Faridkot, 232 in Fazilka, 204 in Muktsar, 203 in Rupnagar, 201 in Kapurthala, 126 in Barnala and 103 in Mansa.