Haryana reported 29 more fatalities due to Covid-19 on Tuesday, taking the death toll to 1,206, while 1,795 fresh cases pushed the state’’s infection tally to 114,870.
Of the new deaths, four each were reported from Gurugram and Panchkula, three each from Sirsa and Ambala, two each from Faridabad, Karnal, Hisar, Yamunanagar and Jind, and one each from Kaithal, Fatehabad, Bhiwani, Panipat and Rohtak, according to the state health department’’s daily bulletin. Among the districts which reported a high spike in cases are Gurugram (372), Faridabad (191), Karnal (146), Hisar (119), Jind (131) and Yamunanagar (98).
The number of active COVID-19 cases in the state is 19,888, while 93,776 patients have been discharged after recovery. As many as 2,892 patients were discharged after recovery in the last 24 hours.
As of Tuesday, the state has a recovery rate of 81.64 per cent and the fatality rate is 1.05 per cent. The rate at which infections are doubling is 27 days and COVID positivity rate is 6.67 per cent, as per the bulletin.
FOUR DEATHS, 266 NEW CASES IN CHANDIGARH
Four more residents succumbed to COVID-19 in the union territory of Chandigarh as 266 fresh positive cases surfaced on Tuesday. With this, the death toll due to COVID-19 reached 127 while the total case tally stood at 10546 in the city.
“There were 2622 active cases in the city. With 383 recoveries reported in the past 24 hours, a total of 7794 residents have so far recovered from the virus,” stated Chandigarh Health Department’s evening bulletin. 14 cases were reported in Sector 45, 12 cases in Sector 19, nine from Sector 38 west among others, the bulletin stated.
As far as COVID-19 parameters are concerned, Chandigarh has witnessed improvement in the past one week.
The recovery rate of 73 percent against the national average of around 78 percent was recorded on Tuesday.