The every day Covid case rely in Punjab on Saturday dropped under the 1,000-mark for the primary time in three months, the state well being bulletin mentioned, with all districts recording lower than 100 new instances. The positivity fee of Punjab additional slipped to 1.78 per cent, the well being bulletin added.
Punjab on Saturday recorded 979 recent Covid instances and 56 deaths, the well being bulletin mentioned. Earlier than this, the final time the state had recorded lower than 1000 instances was on March 3, this 12 months when there have been 778 instances because the second wave was beginning to sweep by the state. The rely had shot up the very subsequent day, settling at 1074 instances. The height of 9100 instances in a day was reached on Could 8.
With 56 extra deaths, the state’s Covid toll reached 15503 on Saturday. The entire variety of confirmed constructive instances within the state, as of Saturday, was 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 very best variety of Covid-related fatalities — six — have been reported from Amritsar. The very best recent instances too have been reported from Amritsar (99), adopted by Ludhiana (92), Jalandhar (91), Bathinda (79), and Hoshiarpur (75).
In one of many highest every day vaccination numbers achieved, the state on Saturday managed to inoculate a complete of 96620 folks (each dose 1 and dose 2 mixed) towards Covid-19.
A complete of 419 instances of mucormycosis (black fungus) have been reported in Punjab until Saturday, of which 50 have died succumbed thus far, the bulletin acknowledged.
