6 succumb, 151 fresh cases
Ludhiana/amritsar/jalandhar Six coronavirus-related deaths and 151 fresh cases were reported from across Punjab on Tuesday. With this, the patient tally in the state has gone up to 5,568 and death toll to 144.
As per state government bulletin, the districts that added the most cases to the tally on Tuesday are: Ludhiana with 45 cases, Jalandhar (26), Sangrur (22), Amritsar (12) and SAS Nagar (11)
Three Covid-19 patients died, while 45 individuals tested positive in Ludhiana district. Among those succumbed to the disease in Ludhiana was a 72-year-old woman who died at Christian Medical College and Hospital. A 43-year-old man with hypertension and chronic kidney disease also died at the same hospital. A 55-year-old woman of Malerkotladied at Mohandai Oswal Hospital on Monday.
Two people lost their lives while 12 fresh cases were reported in Amritsar, health officials said. In Jalandhar, one Covid-related death and 26 fresh cases of novel coronavirus were reported in the last 24 hours. A 55-year-old man of Guru Nanakpura Mohalla died on Monday.
two each from Sunam and Bhiwanigarh and one each from Kauhrian, Amargarh and Malerkotla. In Patiala, three people tested positive for the coronavirus.
Seven people, including six cops of Nihal Singhwala police station, tested positive in Moga district on Tuesday. Moga civil surgeon Dr Amarpreet Kaur Bajwa said all the patients are asymptomatic, but they have all been admitted to isolation ward of
the civil hospital. “They contracted the virus from constable who tested positive on June 25,” she added.
In Bathinda, two people, including, a foreign returnee woman, tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday. Also, nine cases were reported from Fathegarh Sahib, six from Kapurthala, five from Pathankot, and one each from Rupnagar, Gurdaspur and SBS Nagar districts.
ALSO WRITES TO PUNJAB CM
The SAD president also wrote a separate letter to chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh, requesting him to reduce the state taxes on petrol and diesel. He said that in Punjab, the state tax on petrol had gone up to 27.27% while for diesel it was up at 17.53%.
He said the high quotient of state taxes on fuel had affected farmers the most. “Movement of migrant labour out of Punjab had led to doubling of transplantation rates of paddy. Amid the paddy sowing season and various farm operations, farmers have been hit by an unreasonable hike in state taxes on diesel,” he said.