With 658 fresh cases, Haryana’s Covid-19 tally crossed the 21,000 mark on Sunday. The total tally stood at 21240 which included 4956 active cases.
Only a day before, the State’s tally had crossed the 20,000 mark with 648 positive cases.
The Covid-19 toll has crossed the 300-mark with four deaths reported in the last 24 hours in Haryana. Two deaths were reported from Faridabad and one each from Gurugram and Nuh.
The cases continued to surge in the worst-affected districts of Gurugram, Faridabad and Sonepat which reported 435 Covid-19 positive persons in the last 24 hours.
“Out of 658 fresh cases, 222 were reported from Faridabad, 112 from Gurugram, 101 from Sonepat, 35 from Palwal, 26 from Rohtak, 25 from Karnal, 24 from Hisar, 22 from Jhajjar, 19 from Panipat, 16 from Nuh among other cases,” stated Haryana Health Department’s evening bulletin.
Till date, 15,983 patients (including 589 in the last 24 hours) have recovered and have been discharged from hospitals in the State. There are a total of 4,956 active cases in Haryana, the bulletin added.
With 301 deaths so far, the fatality rate is recorded at 1.42 per cent in Haryana.
The case-doubling rate in Haryana stood at 21 days, Covid positive rate at 5.79 per cent, recovery rate recorded at 75.25 per cent, according to the health bulletin.
The bulletin stated, “The total number of cases in the worst-affected Gurugram district stood at 6,860 and 105 fatalities have been reported till Sunday. Faridabad has recorded 5,420 cases and 101 deaths while Sonepat with 1,989 cases has recorded 24 deaths.
Among critical Covid-19 patients, 60 patients are on oxygen support while 11 are on ventilator in the State, the bulletin said. As many as 3.72 lakh samples have been tested till date in Haryana. The report of 5,478 samples is awaited, it added.
234 NEW COVID CASES IN PUNJAB, 4 deaths
Chandigarh: Coronavirus tally rose to 7,821 in Punjab on Sunday with 234 new cases, while four more deaths took the toll to 199.
A bulletin of the Health Department said there are 2,230 active cases of the disease and 5,392 people have recovered so far, with 352 more being discharged in the last 24 hours. Two out of the four new fatalities were from Amritsar, while a death each was from Pathankot and Sangrur districts, the department said. Nine patients are critical and on ventilator support, while 59 are on oxygen support. As many 395,185 samples have been tested so far, the bulletin said.
Sixty new Covid-19 cases were detected in Ludhiana, followed by 36 in Jalandhar, 23 each in Mohali and SBS Nagar, and 22 in Amritsar districts. Twenty-one more people are afflicted with the disease in Patiala, 12 each in Sangrur and Bathinda, six in Mansa and four in Rupnagar districts. Two more coronavirus cases each were from Pathankot, Hoshiarpur, Muktsar, Ferozepur, Fatehgarh Sahib and Kapurthala.
Ludhiana continued to top the tally with 1,376 coronavirus cases, followed by 1,223 in Jalandhar and 1,062 in Amritsar.
As many as 641 cases have been registered so far in Sangrur, followed by 584 in Patiala, 391 in Mohali and 288 in Gurdaspur. In Pathankot, 246 people have been infected with the deadly disease so far, followed by 217 in Tarn Taran, 213 in SBS Nagar and 196 in Hoshiarpur. There have been 157 cases in Ferozepur, 153 in Faridkot, 146 each in Muktsar and Fatehgarh Sahib, and 143 in Moga, the bulletin said.