Five more patients succumbed to the novel coronavirus in Punjab on Wednesday while 101 fresh cases were reported, pushing the state’s COVID-19 death toll to 149, and count to 5,668.
Ludhiana district continued to report an alarming number of coronavirus infections, reporting 41 cases.
Besides, Amritsar reported 17 infections, along with nine in Jalandhar, five each in SAS Nagar (Mohali), Hoshiarpur, and Moga, four in Fazilka, three each in Faridkot, Patiala, and Gurdaspur, two each in Sangrur, and Pathankot, and one each from Tarn Taran and Bathinda.Among the new infections, 25 have the contact history, while 10 have the travel history to other states or countries. As many as 33 are the “new” cases with no travel or contact history, of these 12 are with the Influenza-like Illness (ILI), four pre-operative patients, two health workers, one from the out-patient department (OPD), one police personnel, and two with Severe Acute Respiratory Illness (SARI).Of Ludhiana’s 41 new infections, three were domestic travelers, nine with ILI, seven were contacts of already diagnosed positive cases, one healthcare worker, three were pre-operative cases, one was categorized as ANC and one was an outpatient. Also among Ludhiana’s patients was a policeman — an additional SHO of Mullanpur Dakha police station.
However, the details of the rest Ludhiana’s cases (14), and all the 17 cases of Amritsar are yet to be compiled.Sangrur district reported only two cases on Wednesday, both with no contact or travel history.A doctor at a private hospital was tested positive among Jalandhar’s nine new cases.Among the districts, Amritsar continues to top the list with 928 cases, followed by Ludhiana (880), Jalandhar (743), Sangrur (492), Patiala (332), SAS Nagar (271), Gurdaspur (224), Pathankot (221), Tarn Taran (196), Hoshiarpur (183), SBS Nagar (141), Muktsar (127), Fatehgarh Sahib (120), Ropar (108), Faridkot (108), Moga (107), Ferozepur (96), Kapurthala (96), Bathinda (92), Fazilka (95), Barnala (59), and Mansa (48).
FIVE DEATHS
Punjab on Wednesday reported five deaths — one each from Ludhiana, SAS Nagar, Gurdaspur, Amirtsar and Tarn Taran.A 73-year-old man died in Amritsar on Wednesday, taking the district’s death toll to 43. District health authorities in Amritsar said that six people were on oxygen support and one was on ventilator.