Haryana on Saturday witnessed yet another big spike in Covid-19 cases, with 3541 people, including State Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala, testing positive in the last 24 hours. Chautala said he had tested positive for Covid-19 and isolated himself, requesting everyone who came in contact with him in the last few days to get themselves tested.
A total of 1450 new positive cases were reported from the Gurugram district alone. The state, meanwhile, reported two Covid deaths, one each of them from Hisar and Fatehabad districts, the state Health Department’s daily bulletin said. The total Covid case count in the state rose to 788,985 since the beginning of the infection. In addition to Gurugram, Faridabad reported 480 cases, Panchkula 415, Karnal 199, Sonipat 143, Panchkula 313, Ambala 181 and Rohtak 110. The Health Department bulletin said the death toll rose to 10,072 after the two fatalities. The total active cases in the state were 13, 973 while the overall recoveries were 7,64,953. The recovery rate was 96.95 per cent, the bulletin said.
541 CASES IN CHANDIGARH
In Chandigarh, joint capital of Punjab and Haryana, 541 new cases of Covid-19, the highest single-day rise after several months, were reported on Saturday as the cumulative number of infections reached 67,755. The number of active cases has risen to 1794. No new death was reported today as the toll remained 1,080, according to the UT medical bulletin. It stated that a positivity rate of 11.24 per cent was recorded as 3865 samples were tested in the last 24 hours.