The contagion of the Covid-19 is becoming fatal with each passing day. On Friday, 18 patients of the disease were reported dead in different hospitals of the State. The death toll due to Covid-19 in Haryana has now climbed to 1273.
State also reported 2024 fresh Covid-19 infections and 2863 recoveries on the day. The fresh infections pushed the cumulative number of cases to 120,578 while 101,273 people have recovered from the virus.
Now, there are 18,032 active cases in the State. As per a medical bulletin, the state’s recovery rate, which is 83.99 per cent continued to show improvement. The case fatality rate is 1.06 per cent.
Seven districts - Gurugram (279), Faridabad (221), Sonepat (186), Hisar (155), Kurukshetra (131), Panchkula (121) and Rewari (117)- reported 100 or more new infections while Ambala (90), Sirsa (82), Jind (82), Panipat (80), Rohtak (79), were just short of the 100 mark.
Among the 18 who succumbed to the viral illness on Friday, two each from Ambala, Karnal, Hisar, Jind, Kaithal and Yamunanagar; one each from Sirsa, Bhiwani, Panchkula, Rohtak, Gurugram and Faridabad. bulletin said 375 patients were critically ill, and 53 of them were on ventilator support.