Punjab on Thursday reported 930 fresh cases of the novel coronavirus and 29 casualties, pushing the State’s Covid-19 tally to 1,21,716 and death toll to 3,741.
Despite a slight dip in fresh cases and fatalities, the state’s mortality rate continues to be above three percent, at 3.07 percent. However, the state’s positivity rate has come down to 5.93 percent against the national average of 8.19 percent.
In a breather, the State’s recovery rate has reached 88.07 percent, with a total 1,07,200 persons having recovered from the deadly contagion. What is more! The state now has just 8.85 percent cases active out of the total positive.
Among the fatalities reported in the past 24 hours, Faridkot reported five deaths; followed by three each in Gurdaspur and Jalandhar; two each in Barnala, Ferozepur, Kapurthala, Ludhiana, Patiala, and Ropar; one each in Amritsar, Fatehgarh Sahib, Fazilka, Mansa, Pathankot, and Tarn Taran.
Of the fresh cases, Mohali with 155 cases reported the maximum number, followed by 122 in Jalandhar, 100 in Amritsar, 89 in Ludhiana, 60 in Gurdaspur, 49 in Ferozepur, 47 in Patiala, 46 in Hoshiarpur, 40 in Bathinda, 32 in Kapurthala, 23 each in Fazilka and Ropar, 22 each in Faridkot and Sangrur, 20 in Pathankot, 18 in Tarn Taran, 16 each in Mansa and Barnala, 15 in Fatehgarh Sahib, seven in Muktsar, and four each in Moga and Nawanshahr.
The State has 10,775 active cases, of which 228 patients are on oxygen support while 42 are critical and on ventilator support.