Our Correspondent

Hoshiarpur, May 16

The district reported five more Covid-19 fatalities on Sunday, taking the death toll to 836, while 355 new cases pushed the infection tally to 25,298. Civil Surgeon Dr Ranjit Singh Ghotra said the number of active cases was 2,984, while 21,569 patients had recovered. Of the total cases reported today, 39 patients belonged to Hoshiarpur city, while 16 cases were reported from other districts and remaining 300 patients were from other health blocks of the district.

The total number of samples collected in the district till date is 5,12,083, of which, 4,85,9077 were negative, while 4,019 reports were still awaited and 336 samples were invalid. Among the five deaths, four were reported from Jalandhar private hospitals while one was from Civil Hospital, Hoshiarpur. Of the 290 level-II beds, 55 were vacant and of 35 level-III beds, only four were available at various hospitals across the district.