Haryana on Sunday saw yet another grim day recording 64 COVID-19 related fatalities, highest in a single day so far since the pandemic began last year.
Continuing the upward trend, the state reported 10985 fresh infections taking the total caseload to 424319 in the state. The active cases jumped to 74248 while the death toll reached 3767, according to the state’s health bulletin.
It was on Friday (April 23) when the state had reported its highest ever infections at 11854 and 60 fatalities.
The three districts of Gurugram, Faridabad and Sonipat, all falling in the National Capital Region, continue to witness a sharp jump in new cases and deaths.
In the last 24 hours, Gurugram reported the highest number of deaths at 11. Ten deaths were reported in Faridabad, seven in Hisar, six in Karnal, five in Sonepat, Ambala, four in Sirsa, three each in Rewari, Panchkula, two each in Kurukshetra, Bhiwani, Jhajjar, Kaithal, one each in Jind and Fatehabad.
The overall positivity rate in the state was recorded at 5.95 percent while the recovery rate dropped to 81.61 percent. The fatality rate was at 0.89 percent.
There were 1599 critical patients in the state out of which 1412 were on oxygen support while 187 were on ventilators, the bulletin stated.
There were more than 47222 active cases in home isolation.
As per the health bulletin, Gurugram reported the highest of 3410 new cases followed by Faridabad 1550 cases and Hisar 940 cases. Among other districts, 610 cases were reported in Sonepat, 570 in Karnal, 469 in Sirsa, 491 in Panipat, 340 in Ambala, 368 in Panchkula.
With this, the active cases jumped to 25085 in Gurugam followed by 9653 cases in Faridabad and 5367 in Hisar.
In the last 24 hours, 6057 patients have recovered from the virus taking the total recoveries to 346304 in the state.
The state tested 46989 samples in the last 24 hours. More than 71.64 lakh samples have been tested till date in Haryana, the bulletin stated.