The infection of theCovid-19 is getting more fatal and widespread with every passing day in Haryana. The State Health department reported 17 deaths and 1694 fresh cases of the disease on Tuesday. The disease has so far claimed 706 lives while the tally of the disease has risen to 66,426 in the State.
On a positive note amid the gloom created by the spread of the disease, the State Health department discharged 1163 patients of the disease from different hospitals after their complete recovery. A total of 53,835 patients have so far recovered from the disease and the recovery percentage in the State is now at 81.05. The disease is taking 34 days to double and the infection rate (samples tested positive out of total tested) is at 5.69 percent.
The State now has 11, 885 active patients of the disease, according to a health bulletin. On Tuesday, 17 fatalities were reported from Panchkula (3), Faridabad (2), Karnal (2), Sirsa (2), Kurukshetra (2), Yamunanagar (1), Hisar (1), Palwal (1), Panipat (1), Ambala (1) and Rewari (1). The districts from where the maximum cases were reported are Gurugram (196), Panipat (161), Karnal (141), Faridabad (132), Sonepat (130), Hisar (98), Panchkula (98), Yamunanagar (83), Rewari (79), Ambala (78), and others, the bulletin said. As of Monday, the fatality rate hovered around 1.06 per cent, according to the bulletin.
HARYANA ADDS NEARLY 30,000 COVID-19 CASES IN AUG
With coronavirus infections witnessing a spike in many northern districts, Haryana added nearly 30,000 patients to its Covid-19 tally, a jump of 85 per cent, during August, an analysis of data provided by the State government shows. On July 31, the total number of cases in the State was 34,965 which soared to 64,732 by August 31, the day which also saw the highest single-day spike of 1,450 cases. A total of 29,767 cases were added to the tally, while the number of fatalities rose from 421 to 689, the State Health department data showed.
Also, during the month, recovery rate improved slightly from 80.73 per cent on July 31 to 81.37 per cent on August 31, while fatality rate dropped to 1.06 per cent now from 1.20 per cent at the end of July. The doubling rate of coronavirus infection too went up from 25 to 34 days while tests per million being conducted rose from 24,165 to 45,370 during the same period.
Faridabad and Gurugram, the two hardest-hit districts of Haryana falling in the National Capital Region, saw a decline in the growth in the number of new cases. But instances of the infection more than doubled in some other districts, particularly in the northern region of the state, during the past month.
Faridabad's tally of coronavirus cases rose from 8,655 to 12,684, while the number of fatalities increased from 131 to 170. In Gurugram, the number of cases went up from 9,067 to 11,931 and deaths increased from 123 to 133. Before August, these two NCR districts had been reporting more than 100 cases daily. There has been a sharp increase in the number of Covid -19 cases and fatalities in some northern districts, including Panchkula, Ambala, Karnal, Yamunanagar and Kurukshetra during the past one month.
Officials attribute the opening up of the State post-lockdown and movement of people between districts for work among the reasons behind the rise in cases. Between July 31 and August 31, Panchkula witnessed a four-fold increase in cases from 561 to 2,230 while fatalities rose from two to 20. Ambala's cases went up from 1,543 to 3,842 and fatalities doubled from 16 to 32. Karnal too registered a steep increase in infections from 1,057 to 2,869 while deaths rose from 10 to 30, while Yamunanagar saw the number of cases sharply go up from 265 to 1,631 with 19 fatalities from three months ago.