The tally of the novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) affected patients in Uttarakhand jumped to 4849 on Tuesday with the state health department reporting 210 new cases of the disease.
The spurt in the contagion of the disease has resulted in a steep dip in the recovery rate in Uttarakhand. The recovery percentage which was 81 percent on July 10 has now dipped to 67.99 per cent. On Tuesday the state health department discharged 85 patients from different hospitals of the state which increased the tally of recovered patients to 3297.
The authorities have so far collected swab samples of 127098 suspected patients out of whom a staggering 11077 samples are yet to be tested in different labs of the state. Out of the total samples tested only 4.30 percent have tested positive for the disease.
In Dehradun 65 patients of the disease were reported on Tuesday. The authorities reported 52 patients from Haridwar district on Tuesday. On the day 17 more cases were reported from the factory of Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) in SIIDCUL.
This plant has witnessed a blast of sort of the disease in recent days. Similarly 34 patients were reported from Udham Singh Nagar district and 21 from Tehri district. In Uttarkashi 16 patients surfaced while five patients came up in Almora district. In Champawat district two new patients were reported.
On the day 61 patients were discharged from Udham Singh Nagar district while nine patients each were released from hospitals in Pauri and Dehradun districts after recovery from the disease. Two patients each were discharged from Rudraprayag, Haridwar districts respectively.Uttarakhand now has 1338 active patients of Covid-19. Sudden spurt in the cases of the disease brought Haridwar to number one position in the table in the list of active patients on Monday.
It now has 389 cases of the disease. With 379 active cases Udham Singh Nagar is now at second position. Dehradun now has 265 active cases and is on the third position in the table.
Uttarakhand now has 1459 active cases of the disease. Haridwar district leads the table of active cases with 437 cases while Udham Singh Nagar district is at second spot with 351 active cases. Dehradun is at third position with 320 active cases of the disease.Nainital has 198 active cases of Covid-19 now while Uttarkashi has 43 active cases. Tehri has 41, Pauri 18, Almora and Champawat 17 cases each and Pithoragarh has 13 active cases now. Chamoli district now has four active cases of Covid-19. Bageshwar and Rudraprayag have no active cases of the disease.
To prevent the spread of infection the administration has declared 132 areas as containment zones in the state. Haridwar has 103 such zones while Udham Singh Nagar has 17, Dehradun nine and Uttarkashi three containment zones.