Punjab reports 12 deaths, 242 fresh Covid cases

| | Chandigarh
  • 0

Punjab reports 12 deaths, 242 fresh Covid cases

Saturday, 16 January 2021 | PNS | Chandigarh

12 more people succumbed to the Covid-19 in Punjab on Friday, pushing the State’s death toll to 5,485.

As many as 242 fresh cases, reported in the past 24 hours, took the State’s infection count to 17,0191, stated the State’s health bulletin.

The mortality rate stood at 3.22 per cent in the State. Of the total 12 deaths, Patiala and Ludhiana reported three fatalities each followed by two fatalities each in Kapurthala and Hoshiarpir. Gurdaspur and Sangrur also reported

one death each due to the Covid-19.

Among the fresh cases, the highest 37 were reported from Mohali followed by 35 in Ludhiana, 33 in Patiala, 28 in Jalandhar, 23 in Amritsar, as per the bulletin.

In the last 24 hours, a total of 257 coronavirus patients were discharged after recovering from infection, taking the number of cured persons to 1,61,967 in the State.

The State has 2739 active Covid-19 cases. Of them, 13 critical patients are on ventilator support, while 88 are on oxygen support, the bulletin added.

26 FRESH CASES IN CHANDIGARH

The Union Territory of Chandigarh on Friday reported 26 fresh Covid-19 cases.  “With this, the total case tally reached 20,464. The death toll stood at 330 in the city,” as per the Chandigarh Health Department’s evening bulletin.

As per the bulletin, there were 266 active cases till the evening. 33 patients have recovered in the past 24 hours pushing the total number of recoveries to 19,868.           

Among 26 fresh cases, 20 were males and 6 were females. 1.98 lakh samples have so far been tested in the city. A total of 1034 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours and the report of 120 was awaited, the bulletin added.

 

  

Sunday Edition

CAA PASSPORT TO FREEDOM

24 March 2024 | Kumar Chellappan | Agenda

CHENNAI EXPRESS IN GURUGRAM

24 March 2024 | Pawan Soni | Agenda

The Way of Bengal

24 March 2024 | Shobori Ganguli | Agenda

The Pizza Philosopher

24 March 2024 | Shobori Ganguli | Agenda

Astroturf | Lord Shiva calls for all-inclusiveness

24 March 2024 | Bharat Bhushan Padmadeo | Agenda

Interconnected narrative l Forest conservation l Agriculture l Food security

24 March 2024 | BKP Sinha/ Arvind K jha | Agenda