CHANDIGARH : Punjab on Friday reported 105 more coronavirus cases, a day after the state saw an equal number of cases -- the highest single-day spike -- including 97 returnees from the famous Sikh shrine in Maharashtra's Nanded.
The new cases include 48 from Amritsar, 16 from Jalandhar, 13 from Ludhiana and six from Mohali. The northern state's total is 585 corona cases, of which 457 are active.
As per official figures, over 3,500 pilgrims have returned from Takht Sri Hazur Sahib in Nanded, where they were stranded due to the lockdown.
A majority of them have reached Punjab in batches in government-arranged buses. Likewise, 153 students from Rajasthan's Kota had returned to Punjab, in addition to 3,085 labourers received at the