CHANDIGARH:
Coronavirus claimed 16 lives and
infected 792 more people in
Punjab on Thursday. The overall tally in the state stands at 1,44,177 while the virus has claimed the lives of 4,556 people.
Of the deaths reported in the last 24 hours, five cases were reported in Jalandhar, four in Patiala, two each in Hoshiarpur and Gurdaspur and one each in
Bathinda, Patiala and Sangrur.
In
Mohali, 135 people
tested positive, 122 in Jalandhar, 108 in Ludhiana, 71 in Patiala, 66 in
Amritsar and 59 in Bathinda.
As many as 39 people were found infected in Gurdaspur, 32 each in Faridkot and Ropar, 29 in Hoshiarpur, 18 each in Muktsar and Fazilka, nine each Moga and Fatehgarh Sahib, eight each in Ferozepur, Nawanshahr and Kapurthala, four in Pathankot, three in Barnala, two in Mansa and one in Tarn Taran.