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Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, December 10

The district reported 134 new cases of Covid-19, pushing the count to 18,812 on Thursday. Besides, the district also reported three more deaths due to the virus taking the toll to 594.

The total number of active cases stood at 873. While at present 17,345 persons have been discharged, as many as 517 people are under home isolation in the district. In Kapurthala, six persons tested positive for the virus.

4 deaths, 16 new cases reported in Hoshiarpur

Hoshiarpur: The district health authorities reported 16 new Covid-19 positive cases on Thursday. With this the total number of cases increased to 7,277. With death of 4 more patients, the toll reached 276.

Civil Surgeon Dr Jasvir Singh said with 1,573 new samples of people with suspected flu-like symptoms collected, the total number of samples taken so far in the district has reached 2,09,307. As per the reports, 2,00,894 samples tested negative while 2,573 reports were awaited. The number of active cases was 203 and 6,798 patient recovered in the district.

The Civil Surgeon said out of 16 cases reported in Hoshiarpur district, seven were related to Hoshiarpur city while nine patients were from rest of the health blocks.

The deceased have been identified as a 62-year-old resident of Saroya village, 77-year-old resident of Passi Kandi, 62-year-old of Gautam Nagar, Hoshiarpur, and 65-year-old resident of Talwandi Daddian.