The day by day Covid case depend in Punjab fell under the 1,000 mark for the primary time in three months, with all districts reporting lower than 100 new instances on Saturday, the state well being bulletin stated. Punjab’s positivity price dropped to 1.78 per cent, the well being bulletin stated.
The well being bulletin stated that Punjab recorded 979 recent Covid instances and 56 deaths on Saturday. Earlier, the final time lower than 1000 instances have been reported within the state was on March 3, this 12 months there have been 778 instances because the second wave began within the state. The subsequent day the depend picked up and 1074 instances have been reported. On May 8, the height of 9100 instances was reached in a single day.
With 56 extra deaths, the state’s Covid toll reached 15,503 on Saturday. The whole variety of confirmed constructive instances within the state until Saturday stood at 586,847, of which 14,064 have been energetic. A complete of 195 sufferers are on ventilator assist and 2659 on oxygen assist.
On Saturday, the best variety of Covid-related fatalities – six – have been reported from Amritsar. The most variety of recent instances have been reported from Amritsar (99), adopted by Ludhiana (92), Jalandhar (91), Bathinda (79), and Hoshiarpur (75).
In one of many highest day by day vaccination numbers, the state on Saturday managed to vaccinate a complete of 96620 folks (each dose 1 and dose 2 mixed) in opposition to Covid-19.
A complete of 419 instances of mucormycosis (black fungus) have been reported in Punjab until Saturday, out of which 50 folks have died to this point, the bulletin stated.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
