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Punjab reported 61 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, taking the state’s infection tally to 1,823.
Ropar (35), Amritsar (8), Fatehgarh Sahib (8), SAS Nagar (7), Moga (1), Kapurthala and Patiala (1) reported new COVID-19 cases, Punjab’s COVID bulletin issued on Sunday evening said.
Ropar registered a massive spike in the number of coronavirus cases on Sunday, taking the district’s numbers to 55. A large number of Sunday’s infections were reported among health department employees.
All cases from Moga, Amritsar and Kapurthala were pilgrims who returned from Maharashtra’s Nanded earlier this month. The pilgrims were on a pilgrimage to Hazur Sahib in Nanded.
Of Fathegarh Sahib’s eight new COVID-19 cases, five were combine workers, two were contacts of previously diagnosed cases and one was a new case.
The bulletin showed authorities are awaiting details of the rest of the cases.
SAS Nagar’s seven coronavirus cases puts its infection number past 100—the number now stands at 102.
Punjab reported 25 more cases on Sunday, but these have yet to be added to the state’s official tally.
Mansa reported 12 new cases on Sunday tally—a development that takes the district tally to 33. Four of the new cases were policemen, five were labourers and three were students.
Ropar reported 11 new cases later in the evening.
Two policemen from Jalandhar tested positive for coronavirus on Sunday.
The policemen—a deputy superintendent of police and a constable—were kept at an isolation centre at PTU in Kapurthala after their return from Maharashtra’s Nanded, where they had gone to bring back pilgrims visiting Hazur Sahib. Both policemen had been stationed at PAP Jalandhar, but their swab samples had been sent from Kapurthala.
None of these cases have been added to the state tally yet.The seven districts account for 58 per cent of Punjab’s cases.
The state has reported 31 deaths so far.
