The Covid-19 death toll surpassed 4000-mark in Punjab on Sunday with 13 more people succumbing to the deadly contagion. Even though the number of fatalities reported in the past 24 days witnessed a dip, the number of COVID-19 related deaths has reached 4,012.
The state’s mortality rate continues to be above three at 3.14 percent.
The Sunday’s casualties were reported from eight districts of the total 22, including Mohali that reported three casualties, followed by two each in Jalandhar, Patiala and Ropar; and one each in Gurdaspur, Hoshiarpur, Ludhiana, and Pathankot.
In a span of past 24 hours, the state has reported 476 fresh cases, pushing the state’s infection tally to 1,27,630. The state has been recording a comparatively less number of cases since a couple of weeks.
The places which reported new coronavirus cases included Ludhiana (67), Hoshiarpur (64), Jalandhar (54), Patiala (52), Bathinda (47), Mohali (41), Amritsar (31), Gurdaspur (28), Kapurthala (19), Sangrur (16), Muktsar (12), Pathankot (9), Fazilka (6), Mansa (6), Faridkot (5), Nawanshahr (5), Tarn Taran (5), Ropar (3), Fatehgarh Sahib (2), Ferozepur (2), Moga (1), and Barnala (1).
A total of 958 coronavirus patients were discharged after recovering from infection on Sunday, taking the number of cured people to 1,17,883.
There are 5,735 active COVID-19 cases in the State as of now, of which 23 critical patients are on ventilator while 145 are on oxygen support.