In a notable decline, Punjab on Tuesday reported 1,498 fresh cases of Covid-19 besides 66 deaths, pushing the State’s total count of infections past one lakh. The state’s infection tally now stood at 1,01,341, while the death toll has reached close to 3,000, at 2,926. Of the total, highest 11 casualties were reported from Jalandhar; followed by nine each from Amritsar, Ludhiana, and Patiala; six from Gurdaspur; three each from Bathinda, Ferozepur, Ropar; two each from Moga, and SAS Nagar (Mohali); and one each from Faridkot, Fatehgarh Sahib, Fazilka, Kapurthala, Mansa, Muktsar, Pathankot, Sangrur, and Tarn Taran.
Among the districts, maximum 2,57 cases were reported from Amritsar, followed by 227 from SAS Nagar (Mohali), 127 from Patiala, 115 from Ludhiana, 93 from Gurdaspur, 92 from Kapurthala, 76 from Bathinda, 72 from Jalandhar, 66 from Ropar, 60 from Pathankot, 50 from Hoshiarpur, 44 from Muktsar, 33 from Moga, 32 each from Fazilka and Faridkot, 27 from Sangrur, 23 from SBS Nagar (Nawanshahr), 22 from Barnala, 20 from Fatehgarh Sahib, 12 each from Tarn Taran and Mansa, and four from Ferozepur.
As many 1718 patients — 311 from Mohali, 252 from Jalandhar, 158 from Gurdaspur, 156 from Mohali, 151 from Amritsar, 129 from Bathinda, 100 from Ferozepur, among others — were discharged in a span of 24 hours after recovering from the contagion.
With this, the total number of recoveries has reached 77,127 at the rate of 76.11 percent. However, the state still has 21,288 active cases (21.01 percent of the total confirmed cases in the state), of which 565 patients are on oxygen support, and 65 are critical and on ventilator support.