CHANDIGARH:
Covid-19 claimed 16 lives and infected 819 more people in
Punjab on Friday.
Of
deaths registered in the last 24 hours, four were in
Jalandhar, three in Mohali, two each in Bathinda and Mansa, and one each in Ferozepur, Hoshiarpur, Patiala and Ludhiana.
In Mohali, 195 people tested positive, 96 in Ludhiana, 95 in Jalandhar, 66 in Amritsar, 65 in Patiala and 59 in Pathankot.
As many as 49 cases surfaced in Bathinda, 24 in Faridkot, 23 in Hoshiarpur, 22 in Mansa, 17 in Muktsar, 16 each in Gurdaspur and Ropar, 15 in Fazilka, 13 in Kapurthala,12 in Sangrur, 10 in Fatehgarh Sahib.
As many as 492 patients were discharged after recovering from the viral infection in a day, taking the number of recoveries to 1,33,919.