Haryana on Friday reported 21 more coronavirus deaths, taking the death toll to 2803, even as 749 fresh cases pushed the State’s infection tally to 2,56,477. According to the State health department’s daily bulletin, the fatalities include four each from Hisar and Rewari, two each from Gurugram, Panchkula, Yamunanagar, Jhajjar and one each from Faridabad, Karnal, Panipat, Rohtak and Bhiwani districts. Among the districts which reported a big spike in cases include Gurugram (152) and Faridabad (130).
The State’s active cases stand at 6,577, while the recovery rate is 96.34 per cent.
20 MORE DEATHS, 444 CASES IN PUNJAB
The death toll due to COVID-19 in Punjab climbed to 5,170 on Friday as 20 more people succumbed to the disease, while the caseload surged to 1,62,270 with 444 fresh infections, according to a medical bulletin.
Five deaths were reported from Jalandhar, four each from Ludhiana and Hoshiarpur, three from Mohali, two from Rupnagar and one each from Bathinda and Patiala, the bulletin said. There are 5,981 active COVID-19 cases in the state, it said.
Of the fresh cases, Mohali reported 94, Jalandhar 81 and Ludhiana 75, among other districts. A total of 483 coronavirus patients were discharged after recovering from the infection, taking the number of cured persons to 1,51,119, the bulletin said. So far, 36,34,626 samples have been collected for testing, it said.
ONE DEATH, 74 FRESH CASES IN CHANDIGARH
One more resident succumbed to the COVID-19 in the union territory of Chandigarh as 74 fresh infections were detected on Friday. “With this, the death toll reached 305 while the total case tally was recorded at 18979 in the city”, stated Chandigarh Health Department’s evening bulletin.
There were 535 active cases till the evening. 122 patients have recovered in the past 24 hours taking the total number of recoveries to 18139, the bulletin stated.
The recovery rate was recorded at 95 percent while the active ratio of cases was recorded at 2.8 percent which means for every 100 confirmed cases, two are currently infected in the city. 166499 samples have so far been tested in the city. A total of 1085 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours.