The Gurugram district witnessed its first coronavirus death on Thursday as a 75-year-old Italian national died during treatment at the Medanta Hospital in Gurugram.

This is the first death of a foreign national in the city due to COVID-19. With this, the number of deaths due to coronavirus in Haryana has  increased to 2.

VS Kundu, additional chief secretary and nodal officer of COVID-19 of Gurugram said that the district administration is investigating the cause of death of the woman.

He said that 14 people from Italy were admitted to Medanta Hospital on the request of the Government of India on March 5. 11 of these people have recovered and returned.

However, 2 others were being treated at Medanta Hospital while one woman died.

According to the government health bulletins, the number of corona patients has reached 156 in the state. Of these, 2 people have died and 18 people have recovered and returned their homes.

The maximum number of 38 cases were reported from the Muslim-dominated Nuh district, followed by Gurugram (32), Palwal and Faridabad (28 each), Karnal (five) and Panipat (four).

According to the state health department, till Tuesday there were 129 cases of Covid-19 in the state, but on Thursday the figure has reached 156.

Nearly 80 per cent of the coronavirus cases in Haryana belonged to the Tablighi Jamaat, said a senior health official on Thursday.

"Of the 156 coronavirus patients in the state, 106 belonged to the Tablighi Jamaat," he said.

Earlier, the city recorded 10 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, the highest in a single day so far. Health official had said all the new patients are Tablighi Jamaat members and hail from Una and Solan districts in Himachal Pradesh.

With the addition of these new positive patients, the total number of coronavirus cases in Gurugram rose to 32. Nearly 14 of these are Jamaat members, who returned from the event in Delhi's Nizamuddin Markaz in March.