Punjab on Monday reported 1271 fresh cases of the novel coronavirus on Monday, besides 46 casualties, taking the state’s COVID-19 tally to 1,11,375 and death toll to 3284.
In a little respite to the state, it is for the fifth day in a row that Punjab has reported less than 2000 cases in a single day, against the previous trend of reporting above 2000 cases.
Of the total 46 deaths, highest eight casualties were reported from Jalandhar; followed by seven from SAS Nagar (Mohali); six each from Hoshiarpur and Ludhiana; five from Gurdaspur; four from Amritsar; two each from Kapurthala, Pathankot, and Tarn Taran; and one each from Bathinda, Fatehgarh Sahib, Mansa, and Sangrur.
Maximum 180 infections were reported from Amritsar, followed by 138 from Ludhiana, 127 from SAS Nagar (Mohali), 101 from Jalandhar, 88 from Gurdaspur. 79 from Pathankot, 76 from Patiala, 72 from Hoshiarpur, 62 from Bathinda, 49 from Kapurthala, 37 from Faridkot, 36 from Ropar, 33 from SBS Nagar (Nawanshahr), 30 from Moga, 27 from Sangrur, 23 from Fatehgarh Sahib, 22 from Mansa, 19 from Ferozepur, and 18 each cases were reported from Muktsar, Fazilka, Barnala, and Tarn Taran.
A total of 2,033 patients — including 273 from Mohali, 229 from Amritsar, 213 from Ludhiana, 211 from Ferozepur, 160 from Jalandhar, 154 from Patiala, 120 each from Hoshiarpur and Pathankot, among others — have been discharged in the past 24 hours after recovering from the contagion taking the total number of recoveries to 86,013.
The state still has 19,483 active cases, of which 422 patients are on oxygen support, and 68 are critical and on ventilator support.