DW BUREAU / CHANDIGARH death toll due to the coronavirus crossed the 100-mark in Punjab after two more persons succumbed to the infection on Monday, while 177 fresh cases took the COVID-19 tally to 4,235, according to a government health bulletin. The two fatalities were reported in Ludhiana, taking the death toll to 101. Punjab has been witnessing a steady spike in coronavirus cases with 1,111 people testing positive for the virus since June 15. Of the fresh 177 cases, 46 were in Jalandhar, 34 in Ludhiana, 28 in Amritsar, 15 in Sangrur, 13 in Fazilka, seven each in Pathankot and Ferozepur, five in Patiala, four in Bathinda, three each in Faridkot and Muktsar, two each in Mohali, Fatehgarh Sahib, SBS Nagar, Gurdaspur, Tarn Taran and one each in Moga and Kapurthala, according to the bulletin. Three of them were Border Security Force personnel and four policeman; one was a railway employee. Of the total cases, 17 have a recent travel history to other states. On Monday, 125 coronavirus patients recovered and were discharged from various hospitals. So far, 2,825 people have been cured of the infection.There are 1,309 active cases in the state, according to the bulletin. Amritsar continued to top the COVID-19 tally in the state with 786 positive cases, followed by 564 in Jalandhar, 581 in Ludhiana, 219 in Mohali , 214 in Patiala, 221 in Sangrur, 184 in Tarn Taran, 191 in Gurdaspur, 188 in Pathankot, 164 in Hoshiarpur, 125 in SBS Nagar,  98 in Faridkot, 90 in Fatehgarh Sahib, 89 in Rupnagar, 84 in Muktsar, 76 in Moga, 68 in Bathinda, 73 in Ferozepur, 63 in Kapurthala, 75 in Fazilka, 39 in Mansa and 43 in Barnala. Five patients are critical and on ventilator support while 21 are on oxygen support, the bulletin said. A total of 2,46,760 samples have been taken so far for testing. India on Monday added 14,821 new COVID-19 cases pushing the infection tally to 4,25,282, while the death toll rose to 13,699 with 445 new fatalities, according to Union Health Ministry data. The country crossed the four lakh-mark on Sunday eight days after recording three lakh COVID-19 cases and has witnessed a surge of 2,34,747 infections from June 1 till 22. India registered over 10,000 cases for the 11th day in a row. The number of recoveries also continued to surge with 2,37,195 patients cured so far, while there were 1,74,387 active cases, according to the updated official figures at 8 am. One patient has migrated. In the last 24 hours, a total of 9,440 COVID-19 patients have recovered, taking the recovery rate to 55.77 per cent, officials said. According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), a cumulative total of 69,50,493 samples have been tested up to 21 June with 1,43,267 samples being tested on Sunday. Of the 445 fresh fatalities reported till Monday morning, 186 were from Maharashtra, 63 from Delhi, 53 from Tamil Nadu, 43 from Uttar Pradesh, 25 from Gujarat, 15 from West Bengal, 14 from Madhya Pradesh, 12 from Rajasthan, 11 from Haryana, seven from Telangana, five each from Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, two from Odisha, one each from Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Puducherry and Punjab. India is the fourth worst-hit nation by the pandemic after the US, Brazil and Russia. According to the Johns Hopkins University, which has been compiling COVID-19 data from all over the world, India is at the eighth position in terms of the death toll. (editor@dailyworld.in)