Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 26

Punjab reported 14 new coronavirus cases in a span of 24 hours, officials said.

Jalandhar alone accounted for 12 of Punjab’s 14 new cases cases. Punjab’s official state bulletin shows three cases from Jalandhar, all of them contacts of previously diagnosed patients.

Besides these, some nine people tested positive for coronavirus from Jalandhar’s Raja Garden and Raj Nagar areas---of the city’s most affected places---on Sunday.

The development takes the district tally to 78. District health department also revised the district’s death toll to three after health department authorities said a 48-year-old man who was found positive by a private hospital on Saturday within hours of his death was confirmed to have died of the virus.

This also takes Punjab’s Covid-19 death tally to 18.

The state’s daily health bulletin also showed that both Ludhiana and SBS Nagar each reported one new case.

SBS Nagar, formerly known as Nawanshahr, was the first district to report coronavirus case in March, but went without recording any new cases until Saturday.

The Ludhiana case was a contact of an already diagnosed patient.

The development takes the state’s Covid-19 tally to 322.

Jalandhar has replaced Mohali as the district with the most cases. As things stand on Sunday, Mohali has 63 coronavirus cases, followed by Patiala at 61.

The bulletin shows Punjab has so far sent 14,317 samples for testing. One person is critical and on ventilator support.