Punjab crosses 3,000 mark as 77 more infected with Covid-19

CHANDIGARH: Punjab recorded 77 new Covid-19 cases and two deaths on Saturday, taking the state’s tally to 3,063 and the casualty count to 65.
Both deaths took place in Amritsar. As 45 patients were discharged, the number of patients who have recovered reached 2,327. At present, 671 cases are active. Of them, one patient is critical and on ventilator support, and 14 are on oxygen support. Though there were reports of five deaths in the state, only two were mentioned in the state bulletin. Among the remaining deaths, two were in Amritsar and one in Sangrur. Of the new patients, six are police officials and one is an Army personnel from Bathinda. Four cops tested positive in Pathankot and one each in Sangrur and Tarn Taran.
Twenty-six cases was from Ludhiana, 11 from Mohali, nine from Amritsar, six from Pathankot, five each from Jalandhar and Nawanshahr, four from Tarn Taran, three from Sangrur, two from Barnala, and one each from Ropar, Ferozepur, Bathinda, Fatehgarh Sahib, Kapurthala and Patiala. Three patients have travel history of Delhi, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh. Also, seven patients had influenza-like illness (ILI) and 13 were contacts of patients.
In Patiala, a staff nurse working in the isolation ward at Government Rajindra Hospital, Patiala, tested positive. While the state bulletin said there was one case in the district, local officials said there were six.
(With inputs from Amritsar and Patiala)