Haryana on Wednesday reported 19 more Covid-19 fatalities as the death toll due to the coronavirus in the State reached 1528, officials said. 1283 fresh cases pushed the total infections to 137,398, they added.
Of the fresh deaths, five were reported from Panchkula while three from Hisar, two from Faridabad, Bhiwani, Yamunanagar, Kurukshetra and one each from Nuh, Palwal and Gurugram, the state health department said in a health bulletin. A total of 1555 Covid-19 patients were cured and released from different hospitals of the State over the last 24 hours, taking its total count to 124,841.
Among the districts which reported a big spike in the cases were Gurugram (293), Faridabad (178), Rohtak (80), Jind (73), Hisar (65), Ambala (56), Panchkula (54), Fatehabad (54), Sirsa (51) and Mahendergarh (48). There are 11,029 active cases in the state and the recovery rate is 90.86 percent.
2 DEATHS, 127 FRESH CASES IN CHANDIGARH
Two more residents succumbed to COVID-19 as 127 fresh positive cases surfaced in Chandigarh on Wednesday. “With this, the death toll reached 182 and the total case tally stood at 12820 in Chandigarh. The mortality rate was recorded at 1.41 percent”, stated Chandigarh Health Department’s evening bulletin.
The bulletin stated, “There were 1448 active cases till the evening. 155 patients have recovered in the past 24 hours taking the total number of recoveries to 11190. The recovery rate jumped to 91.1 percent while the active ratio of cases stood at 11.2 percent which means for every 100 confirmed cases, 11 are currently infected in the city.” A day before, 129 positive cases and three fatalities were reported in the city.