Covid-19 cases cross 400 mark in Uttarakhand

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Covid-19 cases cross 400 mark in Uttarakhand

Wednesday, 27 May 2020 | PNS | Dehradun

With the State health department reporting 52 new patients of the disease, the number of novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) cases in Uttarakhand crossed 400 figure mark on Tuesday. The State now has 402 patients of the disease with 330 active cases.

On the day 14 new patients each were reported from Pithoragarh and Tehri districts while ten patients surfaced in Nainital district. In Haridwar, six more people were found infected with the disease on the day. Similarly three patients were reported from Almora district while two patients were found in Udham Singh Nagar district. The 14 new patients reported in Tehri district have a travel history from Mumbai.  In Nainital, all ten persons found positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday had recently returned from Delhi while in Haridwar, a staff nurse deployed in government hospital was found infected.

 In this district, a nine year old boy who had recently returned from Mumbai was also found infected with the virus. In Dehradun, six patients of the disease were discharged from the hospital after their recovery from the disease.

The additional secretary, state health department, Yugal Kishore Pant said reports of 729 samples were found negative for the disease on Tuesday.  He added that reports of 3530 samples are still awaited by the department. On Tuesday, a total of 749 samples were collected for COVID -19 testing.  The authorities have so far taken swab samples of 23076 suspected patients for COVID-19 test.  Out of the total samples taken, 2.14 percent samples have been found positive for the disease.  On Tuesday, the rate of recovery from the COVID-19 in the state dropped further to 16 percent.

The doubling rate of the disease now stands at 3.84 days for the state which indicates that the number of patients are getting double in less than four days now.  A total of 1689784 people have so far downloaded the ‘Aaroggya Setu App’ on their smart phones. A total of 18228 people are in facility quarantine in different parts of the state.

Uttarakhand now has 330 active cases of the disease. The Nainital district is at top of the table with 126 active cases. The Udham Singh Nagar districts is at second spot with 43 cases while Dehradun with 38 cases is on third position.

Tehri district now has 25 active cases while Haridwar has 21 active cases.

 With 14 new cases on the day, Pithoragarh district has 17 active cases. Almora and Chamoli districts have 12 and 11 active cases respectively while Uttarkashi district has nine active cases.  Bageshwar, Pauri and Champawat districts now have eight active patients each. Rudraprayag district has three active cases of the disease.

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