The number of Coronavirus patients in Haryana crossed the ten thousand mark on Saturday with a total of 10223 cases reported by the State health department.
There were 480 new patients of the disease while 239 patients were discharged from different hospitals of the State after recovery.
Meanwhile, a total of five persons died as the Covid-19 death toll climbed to 149 in Haryana on Saturday.
The spike in the number of novel Covid19 infected patients in four districts of the State are showing no sign of slowing down.
On Saturday, 171 new patients were reported from Gurugram district, taking the total in the district to 4307 while 97 cases surfaced in Faridabad, taking the total in the district to 2100. In Sonepat, 71 new patients were found, taking count to 826 while six cases reported in Jhajjar, taking total to 180.
As many as 48 Covid-19 positive patients are critically ill and have been put on oxygen support while 20 patients on ventilator, said the Haryana Health officials.
With 5128 people cured and discharged from the hospitals, there are 4946 active COVID-19 cases in Haryana now. Health officials said that out of 212,430 samples, 196,836 were found negative for the disease on Saturday.
He added that reports of 5371 samples are still awaited by the department. The State has a recovery rate of 50.16 per cent, fatality rate at 1.46 per cent while tests per million being conducted are 8380. The doubling rate in the State is 10 days.
On Saturday, in Palwal, 10 new patients were found, taking count to 259 while 13 in Panchkula, 21 in Karnal, 13 in Yamunanagar, 20 in Bhiwani, 23 in Rohtak and 15 in Hisar.
6 MORE DEATHS, 120 FRESH CASES IN PUNJAB
Punjab on Saturday reported six fatalities due to coronavirus and 120 fresh cases. The death toll in the state now is 98 with the coronavirus tally reaching 3,952 officials said.
Four deaths were reported in Amritsar and one each in Ludhiana and Kapurthala, according to a medical bulletin. The state has reported 812 fresh COVID-19 cases since June 15.
On Saturday, Jalandhar reported 47 cases, followed by Amritsar 21, Sangrur 14, Mohali 11, Ludhiana and Patiala seven each, Kapurthala four, Pathankot, Tarn Taran and Fatehgarh Sahib two each, and Moga, Mansa and Barnala one each, the bulletin said. Seven of the new patients had a travel history to Delhi and Gurgaon.
Forty-two coronavirus patients were discharged, taking the number of people cured of the infection to 2,678. The state now has 1,176 active COVID-19 cases, the bulletin said.
Amritsar continued to top the COVID-19 tally in the state with 754 cases, followed by 536 in Jalandhar, 496 in Ludhiana, 213 in Mohali , 206 in Patiala, 204 in Sangrur, 180 in Tarn Taran, 176 in Gurdaspur, 167 in Pathankot, 155 in Hoshiarpur, 121 in SBS Nagar, 94 in Faridkot, 87 in Fatehgarh Sahib, 84 in Rupnagar, 79 in Muktsar, 75 in Moga, 64 in Bathinda, 62 each in Ferozepur and Kapurthala, 55 in Fazilka, 39 in Mansa and 43 in Barnala, it said.
Five patients are critical and on ventilator support, while 21 are on oxygen support, the bulletin said. So far, 2,35,700 samples have been taken for testing.
22 FRESH COVID-19 CASES IN HIMACHAL AS TALLY CROSSES 650 MARK
Twenty-two people tested positive for COVID-19 in Himachal Pradesh on Saturday, taking the total number of cases to 651 in the state. Of the fresh cases, 11 were reported from Hamirpur district, four from Kangra, three from Shimla, two from Sirmaur and one each from Solan and Kullu, Additional Chief Secretary (Health) R D Dhiman said. The state has reported seven deaths due to the coronavirus, they said.
Eighteen patients -- 14 in Kangra, two in Una, and one each in Shimla and Solan districts -- recovered from the disease on Saturday, he added. With this, 402 people have so far recovered from the infection, while 11 have migrated out of the state, the officials said.
The number of active COVID-19 cases in the state stood at 229, Dhiman said.
Hamirpur has the highest number of active coronavirus cases in the state at 56, followed by Kangra at 55, Solan at 39, Una at 28, Shimla at 14, Sirmaur at 13, Bilaspur at 10, Chamba at 8, Mandi, Kullu and Kinnaur two each.
8 POSITIVE CASES IN CHANDIGARH
Chandigarh reported eight positive Covid-19 cases on Saturday, taking the tally to 390. Out of the eight cases, seven were from Sector 24. In another case, a three-year-old girl from Sector 38 tested positive for the deadly disease. The girl's family had already tested positive.
The city has 68 active cases and 316 patients have recovered from the lethal infection. The UT has reported six deaths due to COVID-19.