Breaching all the previous figures, Punjab on Sunday reported the highest-ever single-day spike with 4,957 fresh cases of the novel Coronavirus, with the State’s Covid-19 toll surpassing the three lakhs mark.
Punjab’s infection tally now stood at 3,00,038, with 11.40 percent of cases — 34,190 — active.
The highest peak was recorded a day after the State broke the previous records by reporting 4,498 cases in a single day.
Mohali, with 880 fresh infections, also registered the highest single day spike at the positivity rate of 36.53 per cent, against the state’s daily figure of 10.49 per cent.
Besides, Fazilka with 24.26 per cent, Amritsar with 16.35 per cent, Bathinda with 14.69 per cent.
Moga with 11.90 percent, Kapurthala with 10.69 per cent, and Fatehgarh Sahib with 10.52 per cent, reported the positivity rate higher than Punjab’s.
Besides, 68 more persons succumbed to the deadly contagion in the past 24 hours, pushing the state death toll to 7,902 at the case fatality rate of 2.63 percent.
Maximum 11 casualties were reported from Amritsar; followed by nine from Gurdaspur; seven from Patiala; six from Ropar.
five each from Ludhiana and SAS Nagar (Mohali); four from Jalandhar; three each from Kapurthala.
Fazilka, and Tarn Taran; two each from Faridkot, Fatehgarh Sahib, Barnala, and Hoshiarpur; and one each from Bathinda, Mansa, Moga, and Pathankot.
LUDHIANA’S DUGRI URBAN ESTATE UNDER COMPLETE LOCKDOWN
Alarmed over the mounting cases, Ludhiana District Magistrate-cum-Deputy Commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma declared Urban Estate Phase-I
Dugri, and Urban Estate Phase II, Dugri, as containment zones, thereby completely sealing this area — complete lockdown — with effect from 9 pm on April 18 till further orders.
Sharma said that a containment zone is formed when 15 positive cases are reported in a particular area, but more than 70 cases were reported in Urban estate Phase I, and Phase II, recently.
Meanwhile, Ludhiana District police has also suspended the public dealing at all 28 police stations and different wings of the Police Commissionerate till April 30.