98 people succumbed to COVID-19 in the last 24 hours in Haryana taking the death toll to 7939 on Thursday.
2322 fresh COVID infections were reported taking the cumulative case tally to 750062 in the state. 5679 people also recovered from the virus and the total recoveries now stands at 713934, as per the health bulletin.
In the last 24 hours, a maximum of 12 deaths were reported in Hisar district. The district has till now reported 821 COVID related fatalities, highest in the state. Till date, Gurgram and Faridabad districts have reported 779 and 703 deaths respectively.
The fatality rate stood at 1.06 percent in the state, the bulletin said.
On Thursday, a highest of 213 cases were reported in Hisar followed by 193 in Sirsa, 171 in Gurugram, 158 in Faridabad, 127 in Fatehabad, 120 in Karnal among other cases.
The state's active cases were recorded at 28189, the bulletin stated.
The cumulative positivity rate stands at 8.48 percent while the positivity rate during the second wave beginning from March 1 was recorded at 15.10 percent in the state, the bulletin stated.
The recovery rate stands at 95.18 percent.
522 PATIENTS UNDERGOING TREATMENT FOR BLACK FUNGUS
Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij on Thursday directed to increase the number of beds in all government medical colleges of the state from 20 to 75 for the treatment of patients affected due to black fungus. At present, 522 such patients are undergoing treatment in various medical colleges of the state, Vij said.
He said that medicines should be made available to these patients as per their requirement without any delay. Notably, the state has floated a global tender to procure 15000 doses of Amphotericin B, the drug used for the treatment of black fungus.