September 3, 2020 by admin

Punjab reports 1,527 new COVID-19 cases, 73 more deaths

Chandigarh
Punjab on Thursday reported 1,527 new cases COVID-19 cases and 73 deaths. The virus toll in the state has climbed to 58,515 with the death toll rising to 1,690, according to an official bulletin.

There are 15,554 active coronavirus cases in the state now.

According to the bulletin, Ludhiana reported 18 coronavirus fatalities followed by Kapurthala (10), Jalandhar (7) and five each from Patiala, Ferozepur and Moga, Amritsar (4), Rupnagar (3), two each in Fatehgarh Sahib, Faridkot, Gurdaspur, Hoshiarpur and Sangrur and one each in Bathinda, Fazilka, Mohali, Muktsar, SBS Nagar and Tarn Taran.

Among the places which reported new cases are Jalandhar (227), Amritsar (168), Ludhiana (152), Patiala (138), Mohali (134), Gurdaspur (71), Hoshiarpur (60) and Kapurthala (58).

The bulletin said 1,529 more coronavirus patients were discharged after they recovered from the infection, taking the total number of recoveries to 41,271 in the state.

Sixty-eight critical patients are on ventilator support while 470 are on oxygen support, the bulletin said.

With a collection of 19,104 more samples for COVID testing, the figure of total samples taken so far for testing has reached 11,21,016 in the state, the bulletin said.