Five more COVID-19 positive patients succumbed to the deadly contagion on Monday besides registering a spike of 208 fresh cases, pushing the state’s death toll to 169 and coronavirus count to 6,491.
Among the five deaths, three were reported from Ludhiana, besides one each from Sangrur and Muktsar.Jalandhar district recorded the maximum surge in the number of fresh cases with 84, followed by 25 in Ludhiana, 19 in Patiala, 15 in Mohali, 12 in Gurdaspur, 11 in Amritsar, nine in Sangrur, seven in Faridkot, six in Muktsar, five each in Kapurthala and Bathinda, three in Pathankot, one each in SBS Nagar (Nawanshahr), Ferozepur, and Mansa.Out of the fresh cases 95 have the contact history, while only eight have the travel history—including two interstate travelers from Patiala, three from Mohali with travel history to Delhi, two domestic travelers from Bathinda, and one foreign returned.
As many 77 cases reported in the past 24 hours have no travel or contact history, categorized as “new cases”. These include 10 with Influenza-like Illness (ILI), four who reported about the symptoms by themselves,
four are the out patients (OPD), two with the severe acute respiratory illness (SARI), one is a pre-operative patient, while six were categorized as “untraceable”.