90 fresh deaths, toll crosses 2,500 in state

CHANDIGARH/AMRITSAR/ JALANDHAR/PATIALA: The Covid-19 death toll rose to 2,514 with 90 more fatalities in Punjab on Tuesday while the patient tally climbed to 84,482 with 2,481 fresh infections in the state, according to the daily medical bulletin of the state government.

Nineteen fatalities were reported from Ludhiana, 12 from Jalandhar, 10 from Amritsar, eight each from Gurdaspur and Kapurthala, six from Hoshiarpur and five from Ferozepur, it said.

Four deaths each were reported from Fatehgarh Sahib and Patiala, three from Muktsar, two each from SBS Nagar, Pathankot and Rupnagar, and one each from Barnala, Bathinda, Faridkot, Sangrur and Tarn Taran, as per the bulletin.

Among places which reported high number of cases were Ludhiana with 409 new patients, Jalandhar (261), Amritsar (214), Patiala (204), Gurdaspur (197), Pathankot (189), Mohali (188), Hoshiarpur (154) and Bathinda (120). There are 21,154 active Covid-19 cases in the state, as of now, according to the bulletin.

A total of 1,815 coronavirus patients were discharged on Tuesday after recovering from the infection.

So far, 60,814 people have been cured of the contagion.

Eighty-eight critical patients are on ventilator support while 481 are on oxygen support across the state, the media bulletin said.

A total of 14,39,583 samples of residents have been collected for testing so far in the state, it said.

MAXIMUM 19 DEATHS REPORTED IN LUDHIANA, FOLLOWED BY 12 IN JALANDHAR, 10 IN AMRITSAR AND 8 IN GURDASPUR KAPURTHALA EACH