Twelve persons died as the Covid-19 death toll climbed to 64 in Haryana on Thursday. The total number of cases reached 5968 with 389 new cases reported, health officials said. Meanwhile, on a positive note, 72 patients were discharged from different hospitals of the State on the day after their complete recovery from the disease.
The spike in the number of novel Coronavirus infected patients in Haryana are showing no sign of slowing down. On Thursday, 191 new patients were reported from Gurugram district, taking the total in the district to 2737 while 74 cases surfaced in Faridabad, taking the total in the district to 929. As many as 34 Covid-19 positive patients are critically ill and have been put on oxygen support while 13 patients on ventilator, said the Haryana Health officials.
Out of 12 Covid-19 deaths, six were reported from Gurugram, four from Faridabad, one each from Ambala and Rohtak. With 2260 people cured and discharged from the hospitals, there are 3644 active COVID-19 cases in Haryana now.
So far 64 patients of the disease have died in the State. On Thursday, in Ambala, 13 new patients were found, taking count to 124 while 10 patients were reported from Palwal district. In Panipat, one new patient was reported while four patients were reported from Panchkula. Three fresh cases were found in Jind while nine patients were found in Yamunanagar. 17 new cases were reported from Karnal district while seven in Fatehabad. Four Covid-19 cases reported in Sirsa while four in Bhiwani. 29 new cases reported in Rohtak while four in Hisar. Eight cases reported in Rewari.
A Health official said that out of 162,967 samples, 151,060 were found negative for the disease on Thursday. He added that reports of 5939 samples are still awaited by the department. The State has a recovery rate of 37.87 per cent, fatality rate at 1.07 percent while tests per million being conducted are 6429. The doubling rate in the State is seven days.
SIX NEW CASES IN CHANDIGARH
Six fresh cases of COVID-19 were reported in Chandigarh on Thursday taking the total number to 334. The fresh cases were reported from Sector 16 and Dhanas here.
“Four family members of already positive resident from Sector 16, have also been tested positive for COVID-19. The family members include five-year old female child, 56 years old female, 60 years old male and 80 years old male,” said Chandigarh Health Department’s evening bulletin. The family members of Sector 16 resident had recently visited Punjab.
Another 24 years old male resident of Sector 16 and 34 years old male resident from Dhanas are tested positive. They both are workplace contact of the Sector 16 resident, the bulletin stated.
A day before, a 34 years old male resident of Khuda Jassu village, who is a workplace contact of Sector 16 resident was also tested positive. The total number of cases stood at 334 while the active cases were 36 till Thursday evening, the bulletin added. 5636 samples have been tested so far in the city.
