A major spike in Covid-19 cases was reported in Haryana with the surfacing of 1609 fresh cases and nine fatalities on Thursday. With this, the active cases crossed 10000-mark in the state.
“There were 10362 active cases in the State till the evening. The death toll stood at 3164 while the total infections have reached 292409 in the state. In the last 24 hours, two deaths each were reported in Kaithal and Hisar while one death each was reported in Gurugram, Karnal, Yamunanagar, Bhiwani and Fatehabad,” according to the Haryana Health Department’s evening bulletin.
Out of 1609 fresh cases reported, a maximum of 381 positive cases were reported in Gurugram followed by 214 in Karnal and 121 in Ambala. Panchkula reported 159 cases, Faridabad 108 cases and Sonepat 102 cases. The fatality rate was recorded at 1.08 percent in Haryana. The COVID positive rate was 4.67 per cent and recovery rate was recorded at 95.37 percent.
As many as 62.82 lakh samples have been tested till date in Haryana, it added.
257 NEW CASES IN CHANDIGARH, 1 DEATH
Chandigarh on Thursday reported 257 fresh coronavirus cases, pushing the infection count to 27,256. One more death was reported taking the toll to 380. The number of active cases rose to 2,951, according to a health bulletin. As many as 313,935 samples have been taken for testing so far, of which 2,85,648 tested negative while reports of 261 are awaited, the bulletin added. Meanwhile, 3499 beneficiaries were given the Covid-19 vaccine at 55 sites in the city on Thursday.