The novel corona virus cases rose to 730 in Haryana on Monday after 27 people, including nine in the worst-affected Jhajjar district, tested positive, the Health Department said. The number of active corona virus cases is 382 up from 378 until over a day ago, while 337 people have been discharged so far, the department said.
On Monday too, the majority of the new cases are from NCR districts –Gurugram, Sonepat, Jhajjar and Faridabad. Haryana had so far reported nine corona virus-related deaths, added one more now, taking the tally to 10.
The worst affected districts of the State with maximum number of positive cases are Gurugram (145), Faridabad (105), Sonepat (102), Jhajjar (83), Nuh (60), Ambala (41) and Palwal (37), Panipat (36). According to the State government’s health bulletin, 27 fresh cases were reported from Gurugram, Sonepat, Faridabad, Jhajjar, Mahendragarh and Charkhi Dadri.
While hard hit Gurugram reported three more cases, taking the total number of Covid-19 cases in the district to 145, Sonepat district that had so far reported 100 cases over few weeks ago, added five more now, taking the tally to 105.
Faridabad reported seven more cases, taking the tally to 102. Jhajjar reported nine more cases, taking the tally to 83. One more case reported in Mahendragarh, taking the tally to 5. Charkhi Dadri reported two more cases, taking the tally to 4.
Meanwhile, 51 Covid patients have been discharged in Gurugram while 55 in Faridabad, 24 in Sonepat, 10 in Jhajjar, 57 in Nuh, 33 in Palwal, 18 in Panchkula and 38 in Ambala.
Health bulletin’s reports revealed that there are no Covid patients in Kurukshetra. All two patients who were earlier tested positive in Kurukshetra have been discharged.
With Covid cases rising by the day, Haryana achieved a milestone of sorts today by conducting around 60,000 tests. All these tests had been performed using real time Reverse-Transcript Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR), the standard test for Covid.
The state plans to increase its testing capacity gradually to 5,000 tests per day in a week, said the officials.By Monday evening, Haryana had sent as 59,735 nasopharyngeal samples for testing to various diagnostic laboratories, of which 53, 697 tested negative and 693 positive, while report was awaited in 5,308 cases, the Health Department said.