In the highest single-day surge so far, the Haryana State Health department on Saturday said 2783 fresh cases of Covid-19 were reported in the state. The spike caused the patient tally to mount to 91,115 in the State. Deaths of 24 patients were also reported on the day which increased the death toll to 956.
According to the Health department's daily bulletin, a total of 2188 patients of the disease were discharged from different hospitals of the day after their recovery from the disease. Out of total confirmed cases, 70,713 patients have so far recovered from the disease. The percentage recovery for the Covid-19 patients in the State is 77.61 percent and out of the total samples tested 6.26 percent samples have tested positive for the disease.
Haryana's previous record of highest single-day spike of 2591 witnessed on September 10 followed by 2388 cases on September 11, 2294 cases on September 9, 2289 cases on September 5 and 2286 on September 8.
Of the 24 deaths on Saturday, five were reported from Karnal while three each were from Faridabad, Ambala, two each were reported from Gurugram, Hisar, Sirsa, Yamunanagar and one each from Kaithal, Faridabad, Kurukshetra, Panchkula and Rohtak.
Among the districts which reported a big spike in cases are Gurugram (326), Faridabad (278), Karnal (272), Hisar (213), Ambala (197), Panipat (178), Panchkula (178), Jind (174), Sonepat (165), Sirsa (131) and others. On Saturday, the State's fatality rate was 1.05 per cent, while the doubling rate of infections was 29 days.