The daily COVID-19 cases in Haryana crossed the 1000-mark on Thursday with a surfacing of 1053 new infections. Seven more people succumbed to the virus as two deaths each in Karnal and Panipat and one each in Hisar, Faridabad and Fatehabad were reported in the last 24 hours.
The state’s caseload jumped to 283622 while the death toll stood at 3117, the state’s Health Department’s bulletin stated. There were 7229 active cases in the state till the evening.
As per the health bulletin, a maximum of 256 fresh cases were reported from Gurugram followed by 116 in Panchkula and 101 in Karnal. The fatality rate was recorded at 1.10 percent in Haryana. The COVID positive rate was 4.64 per cent and recovery rate was recorded at 96.35 percent.
562 people recovered from the virus in the last 24 hours taking the total recoveries in the state to 273276. Out of 112 critical patients admitted in the hospitals, 95 patients were on oxygen support while 17 were on ventilator, the health bulletin said. As many as 61.34 lakh samples have been tested till date in Haryana, the bulletin added.
Notably, the State Government had a day before banned public celebrations on the occasion of the upcoming Holi festival.
HRY GIVES OPTION OF BOTH ONLINE, OFFLINE EXAMS TO STUDENTS
Keeping in view the surge in COVID-19 cases and network problems faced during online classes, the Haryana Government on Thursday gave an option of conducting online or offline exams to the schools in the state.
“The final exams of classes 3rd to 8th will commence from March 26 which will be taken through Avsar App. School authorities can take decisions at their own level to take exams through offline mode also as per demand of situation as deemed appropriate by the school authority but the preference will be given to online mode,” stated an order issued by Assistant Director, Secondary Education, Haryana.
61320 VACCINE DOSES GIVEN IN 2 DAYS
Haryana Health Department administered 61,320 vaccine doses to the beneficiaries across the state in the last two days. The consolidated figure regarding vaccine administered stood at 12,61,799 vaccine doses till Thursday. Additional Chief Secretary, Health, Rajeev Arora said that the Health Department has administered 13,171 vaccine doses on March 24 and 48,149 doses on March 25 to beneficiaries.