The number of novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) patients in Uttarakhand increased to 55 on Wednesday with the State health department reporting one patient of the disease in Udham Singh Nagar district. This district incidentally had no active case of the disease till Tuesday. In the state, 36 patients have so far won the battle against the disease and have been discharged from the hospitals. On Wednesday, two patients the disease, the natives of west Bengal were discharged from the Government Doon Medical College (GDMC) hospital on the day. With them 17 patients have so far recovered in Dehradun district which still has 14 out of total 18 active cases of the disease.

The additional secretary, state health department, Yugal Kishore Pant said one sample out of those tested on Wednesday was found positive for  COVID-19. He said that reports of 237 samples are still awaited by the department. The authorities have so far taken swab samples of 6046 suspected patients for COVID-19 test.  On Wednesday, samples of 181 suspected patients were taken and sent to the lab for test.  The authorities have so far provided psychiatric counselling to 22461 migrants labours kept in different relief camps of the state. In the state, 1011695 people have so far downloaded the Arogya Setu App. The active cases of COVID-19 are now in the Dehradun, Haridwar, Nainital and Udham Singh Nagar districts. In Dehradun 14 active cases are there while two active cases each are in Nainital and Haridwar districts and Udham Singh Nagar has one active case. On a positive note, the state no death from the disease has occurred in the state which has so far has claimed more than 1000 lives in the country. In the state, 66.67 percent of the patients have so far recovered from the disease.

Out of the total samples taken less than one percent ( 0.96 %) have been found positive for COVID-19.