After showing the biggest single day jump of 216 new patients a day before and consistently recording high numbers in the past week, Saturday provided some relief with the state health department reporting 33 new patients of the novel Corona virus (Covid-19). With them the toll of the disease in Uttarakhand mounted to 749. Five patients who were positive for the disease have so far died in the state and 102 have recovered from the disease.
On the day, 21 patients were reported from Dehradun while five patients surfaced in the worst hit Nainital district. Four patients were reported from Tehri while health department found three patients from Haridwar district.
In Dehradun, the Covid-19 is continuing to wreck havoc in the Niranjanpur sabzi mandi. On Saturday seven new patients were reported from among the vegetable brokers and their staff members. So far 26 patients have been found in the Mandi which has forced authorities to shut down a portion of the vegetable mandi. Ten patients reported on the day have travel recently from Maharashtra. In Haridwar and Nainital districts all the new patients reported on Saturday have a travel history from Mumbai. Similarly the four patients reported from Tehri district on the day too have a travel history from virus infested state of Maharashtra.
Nainital district is maintaining its lead in the list of active cases with 205 such patients while Dehradun district is at second spot with 141 active cases.
Tehri district with 74 active patients is at third position. Haridwar has 44 active cases while Almora has 42 active patients. Udham Singh Nagar district has 35 active cases and Pauri has 24 active patients of the dreaded disease. Pithoragarh district has 21 active patients while Bageshwar has 16 active cases. Uttarkashi has 13 active cases while Chamoli and Champawat have 11 and eight active cases respectively. Rudraprayag district is at bottom of table with five active patients of Covid-19.
The additional secretary, state health department, Yugal Kishore Pant said reports of 819 samples were found negative for the disease on Saturday. He added that reports of 5232 samples are still awaited by the department. On Saturday, a total of 1269 samples were collected for COVID -19 testing. The authorities have so far taken swab samples of 28433 suspected patients for COVID-19 test. Out of the total samples taken, 3.25 percent samples have been found positive for the disease. On Saturday, the rate of recovery from the COVID-19 in the state slid further down to 14.03 percent. The doubling rate of the disease has shown some improvement and is now at 5.23 days.
