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However, the highest single-day Covid toll in Punjab, since the pandemic began, was recorded on September 2 last year when 106 persons died in 24 hours.

Families alleged private vehicles demanded as much as Rs 2,500-3,000 to ferry the bodies for few kilometres and since they were unable to afford the amount, they had no option left.

With 76 fresh deaths Friday, the Covid toll in Punjab reached 8,264 and Punjab's case fatality rate (CFR) has reached 2.53 per cent, still higher than the national CFR of 1.15 per cent.

According to the varsity officials, the theft took place on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday and they informed the police Monday. However, the police claimed that PAU officials informed them only on Wednesday.

In testing too, Punjab touched a new high Thursday with 60,432 tests conducted.

Also, Punjab conducted 56,751 tests in past 24 hours, the highest ever since pandemic started last year.

It is alleged that people were also allowed to take selfies with Punjabi singer Karan Aujla inside the jail premises, and that Aujla and his friends' mobile phones were also not checked.

A 35-year-old died by suicide inside the emergency Covid ward of the Ludhiana civil hospital on Tuesday.

As of now, there are 8 more containment zones in Punjab, with a total population of 16,785 people. In Gurdaspur's Babehali area, a total of 5,287 people reside in a containment zone. Hence, Dugri phases 1 and 2 comprise the biggest containment zone of Punjab as of now.

Giving an example of seat belts in vehicles, they said that as the belt minimises chances of fatal mishap, like that the vaccine also protects human beings in case of infection, they would only suffer mild symptoms.

This is the fifth time in past 15 days that the daily case count in Punjab crossed the 3,000-mark.

Trashing the allegations, Jail Superintendent Rajiv Arora told The Indian Express that Aujla was his ‘family friend’ and came on a ‘personal visit’.

After the crime, he called police to inform that he had murdered his wife.

The Civil Hospital, Ludhiana, is the only government facility in the district where level-3 ICU beds and ventilators are available for Covid patients, as per the data.

The incident happened when the “illegal” construction work of raising the roof lintel with jacks was going on, said police.