The Gurugram district on Friday recorded 4,319 fresh coronavirus cases, the highest number of positive cases in a single day so far. Nine deaths were also reported from the city, the district's Covid toll reached to 410, officials said.
The Covid-19 tally in Gurugram has now risen to 96,738 according to the official daily health bulletin.
The active cases in the district stand at 20,760 while a total of 19,667 patients currently in home isolation.
A total of 75,568 have been cured and discharged, including 1,690 on Friday.
The health department said out of 410 deaths, 315 died due to comorbidities and the remaining 95 without comorbidities.
"We are registering more than 2,000 plus cases from the last few days. It is a concern for us. We have increased testing but people need to follow covid instructions. Around 12,000 people are being tested for covid in the district every day and more than 4 lakh people have been vaccinated in Gurugam," said Virender Yadav, CMO Gurugram.
A Gurugram Health department official said that a majority of corona cases are coming from containment zones where the situation remains precarious. The district has now 184 containment zones.
Apart from this, the district administration on Friday disclosed that in Gurugram, the recovery rate of covid infection patients is 78.19 percent and due to this, the mortality rate is 0.42 percent.
