Haryana on Wednesday reported 2,562 fresh Covid-19 cases, taking the tally in the State to 2,07,039, while 30 more fatalities pushed the death toll to 2,093, according to the state health department’s daily bulletin.
Of the 30 fatalities, seven were from Hisar, five from Fatehabad, three each from Gurugram, Panipat, Rohtak, Rewari, two from Faridabad, one each from Sonepat, Panchkula, Kurukshetra and Jind. Among the districts which reported a huge spike in cases include Gurugram (569), Faridabad (606), and Hisar (351), Rewari Sonepat and Rohtak (105). At present, there are 19,543 active cases in the country, while the recovery rate is 89.55 per cent.
OVER 100 GOVT SCHOOL STUDENTS, TEACHERS TEST POSITIVE IN A FORTNIGHT
Over 100 Haryana government school teachers and students have tested positive for Covid-19 in Jhajjar, Jind and Rewari districts since the educational institutions reopened after eight months for Classes 9 to 12 on November 2. Seventy-eight students of government schools were found infected in Rewari and 34 in Jhajjar. At least eight teachers and 11 school children have been found Covid-19 positive in Jind after which orders have been issued to conduct tests in all schools.
Rewari district education officer said that of the around 80 cases reported since the reopening, 25 students tested positive in the past two days. "We have sealed the Government Senior Secondary School at Kund village for two weeks after 19 students tested positive for Covid-19. According to norms, a school is closed for 48 hours for sanitisation if one positive case is detected. The school is closed for two weeks if the contacts of the students are found positive,” he said.
The district medical officer, Jhajjar said samples of over 1000 students from 12 government schools have been collected in the past two weeks. Of them, 34 tested positive. “Most students found positive are asymptomatic. We have sanitised their schools,” he said.
ONE DEATH, 145 NEW CASES IN CHANDIGARH
One more city resident succumbed to COVID-19 as 145 fresh positive cases surfaced in the union territory of Chandigarh on Wednesday. “The death toll reached 253 and the total case tally stood at 16167 in Chandigarh”, stated Chandigarh Health Department’s evening bulletin. According to the bulletin, “There were 1081 active cases till the evening. 89 patients have recovered in the past 24 hours taking the total number of recoveries to 14833. 12685 samples have so far been tested in the city.
2111 samples were tested in the last 24 hours.