Jalandhar district logs 5 deaths, 115 new +ve cases

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, June 6

With 115 new Covid positive cases reported on Sunday, the total district tally reached 61,200. As many as five Covid deaths have been reported from the district. With this, the death toll in the district reached 1,409. As many as 58,017 persons have recovered from Covid in the district, while the number of active cases in Jalandhar is 1,774.

3 deaths in Kapurthala

In Kapurthala, 41 persons were reported positive on Sunday, taking the total number of positive cases to 17,043. The total number of deaths reported was three. Those who succumbed to Covid include a 78-year-old man from Panchat city, a 60-year-old man from Sahni village and an 80-year-old man from Sukhia Nangal. With this, the death toll in Kapurthala has reached 493.

148 test +ve in Hoshiarpur

The district reported one more Coid-19 fatality on Sunday, taking the death toll to 930, while 148 new cases pushed the infection count in the district to 29,317.

As many as 2,629 new samples of people with suspected flu-like symptoms taken on Sunday, total number of samples taken in the district so far had reached to 5,91,751. According to the reports received from the lab, 5,62,306 are negative, while the reports of 3, 305 samples are awaited and 570 samples are invalid. Dr Ranjit Singh Ghotra, Civil Surgeon, has informed that the number of active cases is 1,056, while the number of patients who have recovered is 27,331. The reports of 3,041 samples were received on Sunday, out of which148 positive cases were reported today. A 62-year-old woman of Bhim Nagar, in Hoshiarpur city, died at Civil Hospital, Hoshiarpur.

Nawanshahr reports 20 cases

The district reported 20 more Covid-19 cases on Sunday, taking the inflectional count to 11,178. The district now has 252 active cases, of which 218 are under home isolation.

The number of recovered cases is 10,579 (94.23 per cent). Urban Banga, Rahon and Mukandpur did not report even a single case on Sunday. As many as 26 patients are admitted to L-II and 11 in L-III Covid care facilities in local hospitals.

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