Haryana on Friday registered 14 more fatalities linked to Covid-19, raising the death toll to 1562 while 1250 fresh cases pushed the infection count to 1,39,932 in the State, according to a health department bulletin. Of the new deaths, three were reported from Panipat, two each from Jhajjar, Yamunanagar, Hisar and Gurugram; one each from Ambala, Rohtak and Bhiwani, according to the state health department’s daily bulletin. A total of 1273 Covid-19 patients have been cured and released from different hospitals of the State over the last 24 hours, taking the total count to 1, 27, 540.
Among the districts which reported a big spike in cases included Gurugram (261), Faridabad (153), Hisar (108), Sonepat (89), Rohtak (75), Sirsa (75), Rewari (56), Panipat (50), Ambala (43), Karnal (43), .Panchkula (41) and Palwal (35). Haryana has 10,830 active Covid-19 cases and a recovery rate of 91.14 per cent, the bulletin said.
2 DEATHS, 63 FRESH CASES IN CHANDIGARH
Two city residents succumbed to COVID-19 as 63 fresh positive cases were reported in Chandigarh on Friday. The COVID-19 mortality rate increased to 1.44 percent in the city. “The death toll reached 188 and the total case tally stood at 12985 in Chandigarh”, stated Chandigarh Health Department’s evening bulletin.
Over the past ten days, the fatality rate has jumped to 1.44 percent from 1.35 percent on September 30. A day before, four residents had died due to COVID-19 and 102 positive cases were reported.
The bulletin stated, “There were 1292 active cases till the evening. 161 patients have recovered in the past 24 hours taking the total number of recoveries to 11505. The recovery rate stood at 88.6 percent while the active ratio of cases was recorded at 9.9 percent which means for every 100 confirmed cases, 9 are currently infected in the city.”