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Amritsar reported 63 new coronavirus cases and three of Punjab’s four deaths in a span of 24 hours—the highest single-day rise the district has witnessed since first week of May.
Punjab reported 99 new infections on Friday, taking Punjab’s numbers to 2,986—a few short of 3,000.
The state also reported four new deaths—three of them from Amritsar. The last one was from Jalandhar.
One of Amritsar’s three fatalities was Naresh Kumar, a 70-year-old man who was critical and was on ventilator. District health officials died of cardiac arrest. Details of the other two patients from Amritsar are still awaited.
Officials said he suffered from hypertension.
In Jalandhar, a 67-year-old woman who had previously tested positive for coronavirus and was admitted to Dayanand Medical College and Hospital here, died on Friday. She was diabetic and had a heart condition.
Amritsar has not seen infection numbers this high since the first week of May, when several pilgrims returning from Nanded Sahib in Maharashtra tested positive.
Ludhiana (12), Sangrur (5), Ropar (5), Jalandhar (3), SAS Nagar (3), SBS Nagar (2), Hoshairpur (2), Fazilka (2), Barnala (1) and Ferozepur (1) were the other districts that reported new COVID-19 cases, Punjab’s COVID bulletin showed.
Thirty-one of Amritsar’s 63 new cases were categorised as ILI (influenza-like illness), 19 were contacts of already diagnosed cases, and 13 were new cases, the bulletin showed.
Three new deaths took the district’s death toll to 17.
Of Ludhiana’s 12 cases, four were contacts of already diagnosed cases, four were categorised as ILI, three were new cases and one was categorised as ANC.
In SAS Nagar, two were contacts of an already diagnosed case, and one was ILI.
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In Sangrur, one patient recently returned from Delhi, three were policemen tested positive and one was a prisoner.
Both of SBS Nagar’s cases had recent travel records—one had come down from to Delhi and the other from Uttar Pradesh.
Likewise, Hoshiapur’s cases also had recent record of having travelled from Gurugram and Jammu and Kashmir.
Two of Jalandhar’s three cases were categorised as new, and the third was a contact of an already diagnosed patient.
Three of Ropar’s five cases were contacts of a positive case, one was an angawadi worker and the last was a new case.
One of Fazilka’s two cases had recent travel record. In Barnala, a policeman tested positive.
Ferozepur’s lone case was categorised as new case.
Punjab’s death toll now stands at 63.
Amritsar’s COVID-19 numbers now stand at 592. The district accounts for 19 per cent of all COVID-19 cases in the state and 26 per cent of the state’s deaths.
The district-wise breakup for COVID-19 cases in Punjab stands as follows: Amritsar (592), Jalandhar (319), Ludhiana (307), Tarn Taran (160), Gurdaspur (166), Hoshiarpur (137), Patiala (148), SAS Nagar (143), SBS Nagar (114), Sangrur (135), Pathankot (132), Faridkot (86), Ropar (76), Fatehgarh Sahib (73), Muktsar (72), Moga (69), Bathinda (56), Fazilka (49), Ferozepur (47), Kapurthala (41), Mansa (34), and Barnala (29).
The state’s death toll stands thus: Amritsar (16), Ludhiana (10), Jalandhar (10), Hoshiarpur (5), Pathankot (4), Gurdaspur (3), SAS Nagar (3), Kapurthala (3), Patiala (3), Tarn Taran (1), SBS Nagar (1), Sangrur (1), Ferozepur (1), Ropar (1), and Barnala (1).
Punjab’s coronavirus cases have been steadily rising in June. The state has now 641 active cases—a 2.5 times the number in the beginning of this month.
