Amritsar, July 2

A 63-year-old woman, identified as Paramjeet Kaur of Dashmesh Avenue, succumbed to the Covid-19 disease here on Friday. With this death, the toll rose to 1,568 in the district. Besides, the district Health Department reported 16 positive cases, pushing the tally to 46,794. The new cases included 10 influenza-like illness cases and six contacts of positive patients. The department reported the recovery of 35 patients with which the number of recuperated persons reached 44,968. At present, the district has a total of 258 active cases.

A total of 1,246 persons were inoculated against Covid-19, taking the tally of those vaccinated to 5,43,393 in the district. The health authorities stated that 51,901 residents above 45 years had been vaccinated with both doses so far.

Besides, neither health care workers nor FLWs were vaccinated due to the short supply of vaccines. Under the mission Fateh, a vaccination camp will be held at 25 designated sites in the city tomorrow.

12 test positive in Tarn Taran

No new Covid-induced deaths were reported for the second consecutive day in the district, while 12 persons tested positive for the virus on Friday. The number of active cases has been reduced to 58, of them 33 are home isolated. Teams of the Health Department collected 988 samples on Friday, while 1,97,488 persons had been vaccinated in the district till date. — TNS/OC