The number of novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) patients witnessed a big jump on Wednesday with the state health department reporting 104 new patients of the disease.
The state now has 3785 patients of the disease. On the day the authorities discharged 81 patients from different hospitals of the state after their complete recovery from the disease. A total of 2948 patients have so far recovered from the disease. The recovery rate which was in excess of 80 percent till a few days ago has now dropped to 77.86 per cent. The doubling rate of the disease is 32.86 percent.
The health department reported 52 patients of the disease from Dehradun district on Wednesday. Similarly 24 patients were reported from Nainital district.
In Uttarkashi eight patients were reported while seven patients surfaced in Pithoragarh and six from Udham Singh Nagar district. In Haridwar five patients surfaced while Champawat reported one patient of the disease on the day.
On a positive note 32 patients were discharged in Dehradun district, 21 from Udham Singh Nagar, 11 from Uttarkashi, six from Pauri, four from Almora, two from Champawat and one from Haridwar district.The state now has 754 active patients of the disease admitted in different hospitals. Udham Singh Nagar is at top of table in the list of Covid-19 active cases with 239 active cases of the disease. Dehradun with 188 active cases are at second position and Nainital with 149 active cases is at third spot.
Haridwar has 90, Uttarkashi 18, Pauri 17, Champawat and Tehri 16 each, Pithoragarh 12 and Almora four active cases of Covid-19. Bageshwar and Chamoli have two active cases each while Rudraprayag has one active case each of the disease.