Reporting more than 1,000 fresh cases for the second consecutive, Punjab on Friday reported 1,063 fresh coronavirus positive cases — the highest single-day spike — along with 23 deaths, pushing the state’s Covid-19 tally to 21,930 and death toll to 539. The state had reported 1,049 cases and 26 deaths on Thursday.
Punjab has reported a total of 5,811 cases in the first week of August — amounting to 27 percent of the state’s total cases. Among districts, Ludhiana has been witnessing a constant surge reporting infections in triple digits since July 25.
Continuing to register a high number of cases along with deaths, Ludhiana once again reported nine of 23 coronavirus deaths and 296 fresh cases — the highest number of deaths and fresh infections any district has reported in the State.
Other than Ludhiana, three deaths each were reported from Amritsar and Jalandhar, two each in Fatehgarh Sahib, and SBS Nagar (Nawanshahr), and one each in Fazilka, Kapurthala, Patiala, and Sangrur.
Patiala reported the second highest number of infections in the state at 122, followed by Mohali (SAS Nagar) and Jalandhar both reporting over 70 cases, Amritsar (67), Gurdaspur (53), Bathinda (49), Pathankot (41), Barnala (37) Sangrur and Ropar (32), Tarn Taran (29), Fatehgarh Sahib and Kapurthala (26), Faridkot (19), Fazilka (16), Mansa (15), Moga (14), Muktsar (13), Hoshiarpur and SBS Nagar (11), and Ferozepur (7).
Punjab’s all 22 districts reported fresh coronavirus cases. While two districts — Ludhiana and Patiala — reported cases in three-digit figure, except Ferozepur, all remaining districts reported infections in double digits.
Among the fresh cases are 11 policemen, three troopers of the Border Security Force (BSF), six healthcare workers, seven jail inmates, and five frontline workers, among others.