Punjab on Thursday reported 1793 fresh cases of the novel coronavirus besides 76 deaths, pushing the state’s Covid-19 tally to 1,05,220 and death toll to 3,066.Of the death reported in the past 24 hours, highest nine casualties were reported from SAS Nagar (Mohali); followed by eight each in Bathinda, Jalandhar, and Kapurthala; seven in Ludhiana; six each in Amritsar and Hoshiarpur; five each in Gurdaspur and Ropar; four each in Patiala, and Sangrur; two each in Faridkot, and Tarn Taran; and one each in Mansa, and SBS Nagar (Nawanshahr).
Among the districts, Ludhiana reported maximum 206 fresh cases in the a span of 24 hours, followed by Jalandhar (188), Mohali (169), Bathinda (158), Amritsar (146). Patiala (135), Hoshiarpur (108), Gurdaspur (104), Pathankot (77), Kapurthala (66), Fazilka (51), Muktsar (50), Nawanshahr (47), Ropar (47), Faridkot (45), Ferozepur (43), Fatehgarh Sahib (35), Sangrur (31), Mansa (28), Barnala (23), Moga (20), and Tarn Taran (16).
A total of 2231 patients — 349 from Mohali, 318 from Ferozepur, 206 from Patiala, 197 from Jalandhar, 191 from Amritsar, 156 from Ludhiana, 102 from Fatehgarh Sahib, among others—were discharged after recovering from the deadly contagion.
With this, the number of total recoveries has gone up to 81,475, with the state still having 20,679 active cases of which 443 patients are on oxygen support and 76 are critical and on ventilator support.