Twenty six more people succumbed to the Covid-19 in Haryana, bringing the death toll to 2676, while 1250 fresh cases raised the state’s infection tally to 2,49,329 on Thursday.According to the state’s health bulletin, the new fatalities included four each from Faridabad, Panipat and Hisar; three from Bhiwani,; two each from Jind and Gurugram; one each from Ambala, Karnal, Rohtak, Yamunanagar, Sirsa, Jhajjar and Kaithal districts.
Among the districts which reported a big spike in fresh COVID-19 cases included Gurugram (398) and Faridabad (182).
Haryana has 11,456 active cases of the novel Coronavirus and a recovery rate of 94.33 per cent, the bulletin added.
88 new cases, one death reported in Chd.
The union territory of Chandigarh reported one COVID-19 related death as 88 positive cases surfaced on Thursday.
According to the Chandigarh Health Department’s evening bulletin, the death toll reached 298 while the total case tally was recorded at 17231.
A 62 years old COVID positive female resident of Sector 22, a case of diabetes, hypertension and acute kidney injury, expired at PGIMER.There were 881 active cases in the city till the evening. 103 patients have recovered in the past 24 hours pushing the total number of recoveries to 17231, the bulletin said.Among 88 fresh cases, 50 were males and 38 were females. A maximum of ten cases were reported in Manimajra in the last 24 hours.
Till now, 1.57 lakh samples have been tested in the city. 1413 samples were tested in the last 24 hours, the bulletin added.