Chandigarh, Nov 27 (PTI) Twenty-eight more people died due to coronavirus in Punjab on Friday, pushing the death toll to 4,737, while 812 new cases took the infection count in the state to 1,50,086.

There are 7,719 active COVID-19 cases in the state as of now, a health department bulletin said.

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 A total of 541 coronavirus patients were discharged after recovering from the infection, taking the number of cured persons to 1,37,630, as per the bulletin.

Nineteen critical patients are on ventilator support while 148 are on oxygen support, it said.

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A total of 31,28,711 samples have been collected for testing so far in the state, the bulletin said. PTI CHS VSD

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