Chandigarh

Spike of 2,286 new cases in Haryana

PNS

The total number of Covid-19 cases in Haryana crossed 81,000 on Tuesday with 2286 new cases. State also reported 25 more deaths due to coronavirus while 1704 patients recovered on the day.

Another big spike of 2286 cases pushed the infection count in the State to 81,059. The State had on September 6 reported the highest single-day Covid-19 toll of 25 deaths and on September 5, a record 2,289 cases.

The State has now climbed up to 81,059 out of which 16,890 are active cases while 63, 315 have recovered. The doubling rate for the state is 31 days; the recovery percentage is 78.11 per cent while 6.11 per cent of the total samples tested have come out positive so far. As of Tuesday, the state has a fatality rate 1.05 percent.

With the 25 fresh deaths, the total number of fatalities in the state rose to 854, according to the State health department’s daily bulletin. While three deaths were reported from Karnal and Kurukshetra while two fatalities each took place in Sirsa, Fatehabad, Yamunanagar, Panchkula and Ambala and a death each was reported from Faridabad, Gurugram, Rewari, Rohtak, Hisar, Jhajjar, Bhiwani, Nuh and Kaithal.

Among the districts which reported a big spike in Covid- 19 cases included Faridabad (266), Gurugram (258), Karnal (224), Panipat (204), Panchkula (169), Rohtak (162), Kurukshetra (140), Rewari (115), Sonepat (100) and others.