23 deaths, 549 fresh virus cases in Punjab

Chandigarh, June 20

Twenty-three more people died from coronavirus in Punjab on Sunday as 549 fresh cases surfaced, taking the state’s infection count to 5,92,303, according to a medical bulletin.

So far, the infection has killed 15,826 in the state. 

Deaths were reported from several districts, including Amritsar, Barnala, Bathinda, Fazilka, Gurdaspur, Hoshiarpur, Jalandhar and Ludhiana.

Bathinda reported 71 cases, followed by 52 in Amritsar and 45 in Hoshiarpur.  The number of active cases stood at 7,421, with the positivity rate of 0.94 per cent. 

With 1,173 recoveries from the infection, the number of cured persons reached 5,69,056, as per the bulletin.

There are 168 critical patients who are on ventilator while 1,896 are on oxygen support, the bulletin said. 

A total of 1,04,12,909 samples have been collected for testing so far in the state, it said.

— PTI

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