Haryana on Sunday reported five more deaths due to COVID-19, while total infections in the state rose to 13,829 with 402 fresh cases, the state health department's daily bulletin said.
All the five fatalities were reported from Gurgaon, Faridabad and Sonipat, falling in the National Capital Region, which are the three worst-hit districts in terms of the total number of novel coronavirus cases and deaths. While Faridabad and Sonipat reported two deaths each, one person died in Gurgaon, it said.
COVID-19 fatalities in Haryana on Sunday rose to 223. Gurgaon, Faridabad and Sonipat now have a total of 84, 73 and 18 fatalities, respectively.Active cases in the state currently stand at 4,689, while 8,917 have been discharged after recovery.
The state's recovery rate on Sunday was 64.48 per cent.Haryana is now conducting 10,000 tests per million. Among the districts that reported fresh cases include Faridabad with 131 infections, Gurgaon 88, Sonipat 38, Rohtak 14, Mahendragarh 19, Rewari 27 and Hisar 10.
THREE FRESH CASES IN CHANDIGARH
Three fresh cases of COVID-19 including a foreign returnee and an infant have been reported in Chandigarh on Sunday.
The total cases stood at 431 till the evening while active cases were 89 in the city. “A 31 years old male who had returned from Kazakhstan on June 21 and is quarantined at Hotel Lemon Tree has tested positive for COVID-19 as reported by SRL Lab.
His family resides in Sector-40 here,” stated the Chandigarh Health Department’s evening bulletin. A two-and-a-half-year old male child, a resident of Sector-30 is also reported positive for COVID. He is family contact of 76 years old female who was tested positive from Sector-30 on June 26.
Another positive case reported is of a 42 years old female resident from Maloya here. She is a family contact of already positive case of Sector 29. She is having three family members and two community contacts.
All of them are being sampled, the bulletin stated. 7455 samples have been tested so far in Chandigarh. According to the bulletin, 431 positive cases have been reported in Chandigarh till Sunday evening.
8 NEW COVID-19 CASES IN HIMACHAL; TALLY REACHES 903
Eight more people, including an army and a BSF jawan, tested positive for COVID-19 in Himachal Pradesh on Sunday, taking the tally in the state to 903. Five of the fresh cases were reported from Kangra and one each from Mandi, Sirmaur and Solan districts, Additional Chief Secretary, Health, R D Dhiman said.
Fourteen patients -- seven from Kangra, four from Solan, two from Bilaspur and one from Chamba -- recovered from the infection on Sunday, the additional chief secretary said. So far, 515 people have recovered, while 11 have migrated out of the state, he said. The number of active COVID-19 cases in the state stands at 367 and fatalities at eight.
Hamirpur has the maximum number of active cases in the state at 117, followed by 111 in Kangra, 44 in Solan, 28 in Una, 19 in Shimla, 15 in Bilaspur, 14 in Sirmaur, nine in Chamba, five in Mandi, four in Kinnaur and one in Kullu. Seven villages in five gram panchayats in Hamirpur district have been declared containment zones.