After witnessing a slight decrease in the number of coronavirus cases, Punjab has again witnessed a spike with 33 fresh cases reported on Wednesday. The state's total tally now stands at 2,139.
According to the media bulletin released by the State health department, 16 new cases have come up from Amritsar, followed by Patiala with seven cases; two cases each from Sangrur, Pathankot and Tarn Taran; Gurdaspur, Pathankot, Barnala and Ludhiana have reported one new case.
In a single day spike, the Amritsar has reported 16 new cases today with which the total count of positive cases in district has reached 353. Of the fresh cases reported today, two ILI (Influenza Like Illness) had reported at Flu Corner, who did not have neither travel or contact history.
Of the 14 remaining, eight are contacts; family and neighbours of a Vijay Nagar (Batala road) patient. The male patient himself had reported no contact or travel history. Three other patients are contacts of community spread case from Rani Ka bagh locality, while one patient is the contact of Vimal Mehra, who earlier died of Covid 19.
The district health authorities have also reported two positive cases from among the passengers of a domestic flight from Delhi which had arrived here on Monday. With 46 active cases presently, the district has witnessed 301 recoveries and six deaths due to coronavirus.
Furthermore, the health department have sent samples of 72,468 suspected cases for testing. Of them, 66,417 samples were found negative and reports of 3912 were still awaited.
Punjab, so far 1,918 positive cases have been discharged after the treatment and 148 are active cases.