Chandigarh: Punjab registered 63 Covid-19 deaths and 3,329 new positive cases on Wednesday, taking the total number of deaths in the state to 7,672 and number of positive cases to 2,82,505. Besides, 3,173 Covid patients were discharged from various hospitals across the state during the day while 32,242 Covid samples were collected.
Mohali district registered the highest number of 508 new positive cases, followed by Ludhiana (489), Patiala (347), Amritsar (316) and Jalandhar (276).
A total of 75,137 people were vaccinated in the state on Wednesday, raising the tally to 20,83,587. These include 401 health care workers, 3,080 frontline workers and 65,855 people above 45 years of age who got their first dose of vaccine and 431 health care workers, 808 frontline workers and 4,562 people above 45 who got their second dose.