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- December 02, 2020
- Updated: 01:33 am
DW BUREAU / Chandigarh
Fourteen more deaths due to the coronavirus pushed the toll to 4,821 in Punjab while 630 new cases brought the infection count to 1,52,709 on Tuesday, according to a medical bulletin. Four deaths linked to COVID-19 were reported from Jalandhar, three from Mohali, two from Muktsar and one each from Amritsar, Hoshiarpur, Ludhiana, Patiala and Rupnagar, the bulletin said. The state has 7,634 active COVID-19 cases, as of now, according to the bulletin.
Among fresh COVID-19 cases, Mohali reported 129, followed by 118 in Ludhiana and 85 in Jalandhar. A total of 812 patients were discharged after recovering from the infection, taking the recovery count to 1,40,254, according to the bulletin. Thirteen critical patients are on ventilator support while 147 are on oxygen support, the bulletin said. A total of 32,08,209 samples have been collected for COVID-19 testing so far in the state, it said.
India's COVID-19 caseload rose to 94.62 lakh with November registering over 30 per cent decline in both new deaths and cases as compared to October, while total recoveries surged to 88,89,585, according to the Union Health Ministry's data updated on Tuesday. The total coronavirus cases mounted to 94,62,809 with 31,118 new infections, while the death toll climbed to 1,37,621 after 482 more fatalities were reported, the data updated at 8 am showed. New infections due to COVID-19 started to decline steadily since the first week of October. A total 12,78,727 cases were reported in November, a decrease from October's 18,71,498, accounting for about 13.51 per cent of the total instances of the viral infection reported in the country so far. The past month also saw 15,510 lives lost due to the disease, which is just around 11.27 per cent of the total 1,37,621 deaths recorded so far. The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 88,89,585, pushing the national recovery rate to 93.94 per cent. The COVID-19 case fatality rate stands at 1.45 per cent.The active COVID-19 caseload remained below five lakh for the 21th consecutive day. There are 4,35,603 active cases in the country which comprise 4.60 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated. India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 30 lakh on August 23 and 40 lakh on September 5. It went past 50 lakh on September 16, 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11.
(editor@dailyworld.in)