The Covid-19 deaths in Haryana on Thursday rose to 1,548 with 20 more fatalities being reported, while 1,284 fresh cases took the infection tally to 1,38,682, according to a State Health department bulletin.
A total of 1,426 covid-19 patients were cured and released from different hospitals of the State over the last 24 hours, taking the total count to 1,26, 267. The active cases in the State currently are 10,867 while the recovery rate, which was 78.11 per cent a month ago, has further improved and was 91.05 per cent on Thursday.
According to bulletin, of new fatalities, four each were from Hisar and Rohtak, three from Rewari, two each from Faridabad and Jhajjar, and one each was reported from Ambala, Palwal, Panchkula, Bhiwani and Kurukshetra. Among the districts which reported a big spike in cases included Gurugram (264), Faridabad (182), Hisar (129) and Karnal (100), Panchkula (80), Sonepat (65), Ambala (49), Rohtak (47), Yamunanagar (41), Panipat (37) and Kurukshetra (37), according to bulletin.