Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, December 2
The district reported three more Covid-19 fatalities on Wednesday, taking the death toll to 568, while 45 new cases pushed the infection count in the district to 18,079. The active cases in the district are 1,233. As many as 16,278 patients have been discharged, while 782 people are also under home isolation in the district. In Kapurthala district, six persons tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday.
Covid tally crosses 7k mark in Hoshiarpur
With the arrival of 20 new positive patients, the number of positive patients has crossed the 7,000 mark in Hoshiarpur district taking the total to 7021.
However, no patient succumbed to the virus on Wednesday, keeping the toll to 258 in the district. Civil Surgeon Dr Jasvir Singh said the total number of samples taken in the district has increased to 1,98,004 with 1,612 new samples taken of the people with suspected flu-like symptoms on Wednesday. According to reports received from the laboratory, 1,89,962 are negative, while 2,365 reports are awaited and 149 samples are invalid. The number of active cases in the district is 171, while the number of patients who have recovered is 6,592. Of the reports of 834 samples received today, 20 new cases of positive patients were reported, of which seven cases are related to Hoshiarpur city, while 13 patients are from various health blocks in the district. — OC
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