DW BUREAU / Chandigarh Thirty-four more deaths due to the coronavirus in Punjab pushed the death toll to 3,894 while 692 cases took the infection tally to 1,25,211 on Tuesday, according to a bulletin. Six deaths were reported from Amritsar, four from Ludhiana, three each from Gurdaspur and Sangrur, two each from Hoshiarpur, Jalandhar, Kapurthala, Mohali, Muktsar, Patiala and Rupnagar and one each from Barnala, Fazilka, Moga and SBS Nagar, as per the medical bulletin. The places which reported fresh coronavirus cases included Ludhiana (103), Jalandhar (95), Mohali (57) and Amritsar (57).There are 8,212 active COVID-19 cases in the state, as of now, according to the bulletin. A total of 1,006 coronavirus patients were discharged after recovering from infection, taking the number of cured persons to 1,13,105, it said. Thirty-eight critical patients are on ventilator support while 186 are on oxygen support, the bulletin said. A total of 21,89,467 samples have been collected for testing so far in the state, it said. The number of new coronavirus infections reported daily across the country dropped below 60,000, even as the caseload surged to 71,75,880 and the total recoveries crossed 62 lakh, the Union Health Ministry data stated on Tuesday. The total cases mounted to 71,75,880, with 55,342 infections being reported in a day, while death toll climbed to 1,09,856 as the virus claimed 706 lives in a span of 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am showed. For the fifth day in a row, the active cases of COVID-19 remained below 9 lakh. The country has been recording less than 75,000 new infections daily for the fifth consecutive day and fatalities below 1,000 for 10 straight days. India registered a record single-day increase of 97,894 COVID-19 cases on September 17. There are 8,38,729 active cases of coronavirus in the country which comprises 11.69 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated. The case fatality rate due to COVID-19 was recorded at 1.53 per cent. India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 30 lakh on August 23 and 40 lakh on September 5 . It went past 50 lakh on September 16, 60 lakh on September 28 and crossed 70 lakh on October 11. According to ICMR, a cumulative total of 8,89,45,107 samples has been tested up to October 12 with 10,73,014  samples being tested on Monday. The 706 new fatalities include 165 from Maharashtra, 70 from Karnataka, 62 from Tamil Nadu, 60 from West Bengal, 44 from Uttar Pradesh. (editor@dailyworld.in)