Chandigarh: Even because there has been an important increase in the main parameters – the level of prospective, value-r, recovery and active cases – since the second wave of Covid-19 calm, the Punjab struggle with a high mortality rate continues.
Since September last year, Punjab failed to get rid of the least desirable record of having the highest death rate in the country which is currently at 2.7%, more than double the average average of India.
Not only that, Punjab and Maharashtra (2.02) are the only countries in this country with a mortality rate of more than 2%.
The two-week state fatality rate rose from 6.09% to 6.42%.
A total of nine districts have recorded an increase in case mortality (CFR) from July 1 to July 7 compared to the death rate between June 1 and June 30.
Mansa has topped the list because the death rate rose from 7.6% 27.1%.
During that period, 84 people infected with the virus died and 13, the highest number of deaths in the state, was in Mansa.
In Ferozepur, 10 people lost their lives and pushed the death rate from 5.6% to 16.7%.
Likewise, in Hoshiarpur, Fazilka and Kapurthala, six deaths each reported to increase mortality by 2.5% to 7.8%, 5.5% to 8.6% and 6.2% to 11.1%, In these three districts.
The decline in mortality rates has been recorded in 13 districts.
The death rate in Tarn Taran and Nawanshahr fell to 0 which was previously 13.6% and 8.6%.
Moga and Patiala witnessed a reduction in mortality by 3.9%, 3.7% in sangrur, 3.3% in Gurdapur, and 2.7% in Mohali.