Haryana on Wednesday reported seven more COVID-19 deaths, taking their number to 413 as 755 fresh cases pushed the tally in the State to 33,631. According to a Health department bulletin, two each fatalities were reported in Faridabad and Panipat while on each in Gurugram, Sonepat and Rohtak.
The districts that reported fresh cases include Faridabad (198), Gurgaon (91), Ambala (75), Rewari (32), Rohtak (35), Sonipat (26), Karnal (35) and Jind (43).
During the past 10 days, Haryana has witnessed a sharp increase in cases, with most of them from districts falling in the National Capital Region.
The number of active stands at 6,798, while 26,420 patients have been discharged after recovery, the bulletin said. The State's recovery rate on Wednesday was at 78.56 per cent, while the rate of doubling of infections was 24 days. The fatality rate was at 1.23 per cent.
In the month of June, the recovery rate was 44.78 per cent, which has improved to over 78 per cent by July-end.
The officials informed that the state has been progressively increasing its testing capacity, both rapid antigen and RT-PCR, and during June-July, the number of tests conducted have doubled, while tests per million population have reached 22,984. As many as 5.82 lakh samples have been tested till date in Haryana.
The report of 5807 samples is awaited, it added.