Punjab on Saturday has recorded 5,724 fresh COVID-19 caseswith 92 casualties in the last 24 hours. Notably, the state is witnessing the surgein infection cases owing to the second wave of virus which has filled thenation with grim.
Before this, the state on April 24 reported 6,762 infections,highest-spike amidst the second wave of Covid.
According to a medical bulletin issued by the Punjabgovernment, the death stands at 8,356 with 92 recent casualties. The number ofactive cases also escalated to 46,565 on Saturday.
Saturday’s maximum number of cases was reported by SAS Nagari.e. 802 while Ludhiana and Jalandhar witnessed 861 and 544 respectively.
Moreover, 592 cases were reported in Bathinda followed by 465cases in Patiala, 385 in Amritsar, 206 in Gurdaspur, and 131 in Kapurthala.
The highest number of deaths in the day has been registeredin Amritsar and Mohali which is 11 while Ludhiana recorded 10 deaths.
In a sigh of relief, 2,949 patients were dischargedafter recovering from the contagious disease. With this, the number of curedpersons rose to 277189, as per the bulletin.
Total 18 patients are in critical condition and have beenput on ventilator support while 556 are on oxygen support.