The number of novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) patients in Uttarakhand increased to 1355 on Sunday with the state health department reporting 52 new patients of the disease. On the day, two patients positive for Covid-19 died in Dehradun increasing the tally of deaths to 13 in the state. The state health authorities discharged 105 patients of the disease from different hospitals of the state after their complete recovery. In Uttarakhand, 528 patients have so far won the war against the disease.
In Dehradun, two Covid-19 positive patients died on Sunday. A 48 year old patient died in Government Doon Medical College (GDMC) hospital on late Saturday night. In another case, an 80 year old patient also died in GDMC hospital on Sunday. He was referred from Kailash hospital, Dehradun. Incidentally nine out of 13 deaths so far in the state have taken place in Dehradun district.
On the day, 27 patients of the disease were reported from Haridwar district. This district is showing a surge in patients in last few days. In Dehradun 11 patients of Covid-19 were found while six patients were reported from Bageshwar district. In Tehri three patients were found while two patients each were reported from Nainital and Udham Singh Nagar district. In Champawat, one patient of the disease was reported.
On Sunday 64 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovery in Tehri district while 13 patients were discharged from Almora district. Eleven patients were discharged from Dehradun district while 10 were discharged from Uttarkashi district. Similarly seven patients were discharged from Hardwar district.
The additional secretary, state health dept, Yugal Kishore Pant said that reports of 1118 samples were found negative for the disease on Sunday. He added that reports of 5905 samples are still awaited by the department. On Sunday, a total of 592 samples were collected for COVID -19 testing. The authorities have so far taken swab samples of 37166 suspected patients for COVID-19 test. Out of the total samples taken, 4.43 percent samples have been found positive for the disease. The doubling rate of disease in the state is 14.08 days while the recovery percent in the state is now at 37.14. A total of 23104 persons are kept in institutional quarantine by the state health dept.
With discharge of 105 patients, the number of active patients in the state decreased to 808 on Sunday. Dehradun with 274 active cases is maintaining its position at top of the table of Covid-19 positive active patients. Nainital district is at second position with 189 active cases. Haridwar now has 90 active cases while Udham Singh Nagar has 44 active cases. Pithoragrah and Champawat districts now have 43 and 38 active patients respectively. Tehri now has 23 active patients left while Bageshwar and Chamoli districts have 22 active patients each. Pauri now has 26 while Almora has 12 active cases. With recovery of 25 patients on the day, the number of active cases in Almora district reduced to 25 on Saturday. Rudraprayag now has 19 active cases while Uttarkashi has six active patients of the disease.
The state administration has declared 52 areas in different parts of the state containment zones. Dehradun district has maximum number of 23 containment zone while 19 containment zones are in Haridwar district.