Seven more coronavirus deaths in Haryana on Wednesday were reported, taking the toll to 2934 even as 316 fresh cases pushed the State's infection tally to 2,63,887, a health bulletin showed.
According to the State health department's daily bulletin, the fatalities were two from Sonepat, one each from Gurugram, Faridabad, Yamunanagar, Bhiwani, Jind districts. Among other districts to report new cases included Gurugram (99) and Faridabad (36).
The number of active cases in the State were 2672 while as many as 2,58,281 people have so far been discharged after recovering from infection. The recovery rate was 97.88 percent.
1 DEATH, 78 NEW CASES IN CHANDIGARH
One more resident succumbed to the COVID-19 as 78 fresh positive cases were reported in Chandigarh on Wednesday. With this, the case tally reached 20104 and the death toll stood at 323 in the city, as per the Chandigarh Health Department’s evening bulletin.
As per the bulletin, there were 256 active cases till the evening. 61 patients have recovered in the past 24 hours pushing the total number of recoveries to 19525. Among 78 fresh cases, 38 were males and450 were females. A maximum of seven positive cases were detected in PGIMER campus in the last 24 hours, it stated. 187897 samples have so far been tested in the city. A total of 1331 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours.