Chandigarh, Nov 28 (PTI) A total of 28 people died of Covid-19 in Punjab, pushing the state's fatality toll to 4,765 while 745 new cases took the infection count to 1,50,805 on Saturday.

Also Read | Dimple Kapadia on Christopher Nolan’s Tenet: I Have to See It Three Times More to Completely Understand.

There are 7,834 active Covid-19 cases in the state, as of now, the state's medical bulletin said.

Also Read | GHMC Elections 2020: Yogi Adityanath Powers BJP Campaign, Asks ‘Why Can’t Hyderabad be Renamed Bhagyanagar?’.

Mohali reported 178 new cases, followed by 100 in Ludhiana and 99 in Jalandhar, among fresh cases witnessed in the state.

A total of 576 coronavirus patients were discharged after recovering from the infection, taking the number of cured people to 1,38,206, as per the bulletin.

Fifteen critical patients are on ventilator support while 164 are on oxygen support, the bulletin said.

A total of 31,56,767 samples have been collected for testing so far in the state, it said.

(The above story is verified and authored by Press Trust of India (PTI) staff. PTI, India’s premier news agency, employs more than 400 journalists and 500 stringers to cover almost every district and small town in India.. The views appearing in the above post do not reflect the opinions of LatestLY)