Nearly after three months, Punjab on Sunday registered less than 1,600 cases of Coronavirus. At the positivity rate of 2.54 percent, the state registered 1,593 fresh cases along with 65 fatalities, pushing the state’s infection tally to 5,79,560 and death toll to 15,076.
With this, the state’s active cases have come down to 22,160 — accounting for 3.82 percent of the state’s total confirmed cases. However, the state’s case fatality rate continues to hover around 2.60 percent.
Among Sunday’s deaths, highest seven each were reported from Bathinda and Muktsar; followed by six from Patiala, five from Sangrur, four each were reported from Amritsar, Fazilka, and Moga among others.
Maximum 203 of the Sunday’s positive cases were reported from Ludhiana at the positivity rate of 1.64 percent while Mansa reported the highest positivity rate of 8.94 percent with 50 fresh cases in a single day. With 3,790 patients discharged after recovering from the deadly contagion in the past 24 hours, the total recoveries have gone up to 5,42,324 at the recovery rate of 93.58 percent.
Hry reports 48 deaths, 654 new cases
48 people succumbed to COVID-19 in Haryana as 654 fresh infections surfaced in the last 24 hours.
The death toll on Sunday stood at 8712 while the total case tally reached 762291 in the state.
1483 people recovered from the virus in the last 24 hours and the total recoveries now stands at 744482, according to the health bulletin.
In the last 24 hours, a maximum of six deaths were reported in Rewari. Highest 64 fresh cases were reported in Hisar district.
The state's active cases were recorded at 9097, the bulletin stated.
The fatality rate in Haryana stands at 1.14 percent while the recovery rate was recorded at 97.66 percent.
Over 92 lakh samples have been tested in Haryana till date.
Himachal reports 18 deaths, 357 cases
Himachal on Sunday reported 18 COVID related fatalities and 357 fresh cases.
According to the health bulletin, the death toll has reached 3281 while the COVID-19 caseload stands at 195099.
The number of recoveries rose to 183434 with 1459 patients recuperating from the disease in the last 24 hours. There were 8361 active cases in Himachal.