Punjab on Wednesday reported 1,407 fresh cases of the novel coronavirus on Wednesday at the positivity rate of 2.29 percent, besides 66 deaths — pushing the state’s COVID-19 tally to 5,83,474 and death toll to 15,293.
With this, the state’s active cases have come down to 17,344 — accounting for 2.97 percent of the state’s total positive cases; while the recovery rate has gone up to 94.41 percent as total number of recoveries has reached 5,50,837. The state’s case fatality rate (CFR) continues to hover around 2.62 percent.
Currently, the state has 3024 patients on oxygen support, while 619 patients are at critical care Level-III facilities, and 240 critical patients are on ventilator support.
Highest nine of the Wednesday’s total deaths were reported from Amritsar; followed by eight from Ludhiana; six each from Jalandhar and Patiala; five each from Sangrur and Gurdaspur; four each from Bathinda and Ferozepur; two each from Kapurthala, Mansa, Moga, Pathankot, Ropar, and Tarn Taran; and one each from Fatehgarh Sahib, Fazilka, Hoshiarpur, Mohali, Muktsar, SBS Nagar (Nawanshahr), and Barnala.
Among districts, Jalandhar reported the highest 142 fresh infections at the positivity rate of 2.20 percent; while Ferozepur registered highest positivity rate of 5.39 percent reporting 93 fresh cases. Total 10 districts reported a higher positivity rate than that of the state.
Meanwhile, the state on Wednesday reported eight new cases of the Mucormycosis, popularly known as black fungus, taking the total number of cases to 399, of which 353 cases belonged to Punjab while remaining 46 belonged to other States.
As per data available, 282 cases are under treatment in the state, while 39 patients of black fungus have been cured and a total 49 have died.