Jalandhar records 1 death, 15 +ve cases

Jalandhar, January 18

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With 15 more cases, the Covid tally in district reached 20,373 today. With one more death, the toll reached 660 in Jalandhar. The active cases in district are 226 until today. As many as 19,487 persons have been discharged while as many as 142 people are under home isolation in Jalandhar currently. Kapurthala district saw five persons testing positive for Covid-19 today. TNS

JALANDHAR ROUND-UP

Samples collected 5,26,471
Negative 4,86,892
Positive 20,373
Active 226
Deceased 660
Discharged 19,487
Sample inappropriate 5,320
Results awaited 395
Home isolated 142

1 dies, 13 test positive in Hoshiarpur

Hoshiarpur: The district received 1,371 sample reports on Monday, of which 13 people tested positive taking the tally to 7,945. With the death of an 81-year-old resident of Haveli village, the death toll reached 328 on Monday. She died at a private hospital in Jalandhar. The total number of samples taken so far in the district has increased to 2,63,636 with 1,316 new samples taken from people with suspected flu-like symptoms. According to the reports received from the lab, 2,55,487 were negative, while 1,854 reports are awaited and 184 were invalid. The number of active cases is 44, while the number of patients who have recovered is 7,573. Civil Surgeon Dr Ranjit Singh said out of the 13 positive patients found in the district today, two were from Hoshiarpur city and the remaining 11 from different health blocks. OC