Tribune News Service

Amritsar, June 4

With four more persons losing their lives to Covid-19 in the district on Friday, the toll increased to 1,479. The health authorities reported 144 new cases today. With the new cases, the total count of positive cases increased to 45,211 in the district.

The new cases include 94 influenza-like illness cases and 50 contacts of positive patients. The Health Department reported the recovery of 345 patients with which the recovery count increased to 41,388. At present, the district has a total of 2,344 active cases.

Those who fell prey to the virus include Jasbir Kaur (67) of Chowk Paragdass, Balwinder Kaur (47) of Mehta, Ranjit Kumar (68) of Kot Khalsa and Mukhtar Singh (58) of Jasroar village in Ajnala.

Meanwhile, 4,261 beneficiaries were inoculated in the district today. It took the total number of people fully inoculated to 3,92,155. So far, a total of 15,122 healthcare workers, 17,745 frontline workers, 40,390 residents above 45 years of age were administered both doses.

Four die in Tarn Taran

The district health authorities on Friday reported four deaths due to Covid-19, pushing the toll to 326. The health authorities reported 33 fresh positive cases today. With this, the tally of active cases increased to 421 in the district and out of these, 225 patients have been isolated at their respective homes.

So far, 2,124 citizens have been vaccinated and a total number of 1,35,007 had been vaccinated against Covid-19. Tarn Taran Deputy Commissioner Kulwant Singh said teams of the Health Department had collected 1,118 samples on Friday.