Haryana on Friday witnessed 2388 Covid-19 fresh cases and with this, the number of Covid-19 patients in the State climbed to 88,332.
Twenty five patients of the disease were reported dead on the day which increased the death toll to 932 in the State. The Health department discharged 1820 patients from different hospitals of the State following their recovery and a total of 68, 525 patients have so far recovered from the disease and the recovery percentage for Covid-19 patients in the State is at 77.58 per cent.
With spurt in the cases, the infection rate in the State too is climbing steadily and is now at 6.20 per cent. The disease is taking 29 days to double its numbers.
Haryana’s record of highest single-day spike of 2591 cases was witnessed on September 10 while 2294 cases came on September 9, 2289 cases on September 5 and 2286 on September 8.
Of the 25 fatalities reported on Friday, four were from Karnal; three each from Gurugram, Ambala, Sirsa and two each from Faridabad, Rohtak, Panchkula, Yamunanagar and one each from Panipat, Palwal, Bhiwani and Kurukshetra, the bulletin said.
Among the districts which reported a big spike in cases are Gurgaon (289), Faridabad (281), Panchkula (180), Kurukshetra (173), Ambala (168), Sonepat (167), Karnal (155), Panipat (153), Rohtak (103), Yamunanagar (79) and Jhajjar (63), it said. Currently, there are 18,875 active COVID-19 cases while fatality rate is 1.06 per cent, according to the bulletin.