The Covid-19 crisis deepened further in Haryana on Wednesday as 181 fatalities, 15,416 fresh cases highest ever in a single-day were reported during the last 24 hours.
The new cases have pushed the State’s cumulative tally to 558,975 and the death toll to 4,960. There were 1,13,425 active cases in the State, as per Haryana’s health bulletin.
The State had on Tuesday reported 15,786 cases and 153 deaths. In just five days in May, the State has reported 70,997 Covid cases and 744 fatalities. In the month of April, the State had reported nearly two lakh cases and over 1,000 fatalities.
As per the bulletin, Bhiwani reported the highest number of 18 deaths in last 24 hours.15 fatalities each were reported in Hisar and Gurugram, 13 in Karnal, 12 in Fatehabad, 11 each in Ambala and Panipat, ten each in Jhajjar and Kaithal, nine each in Yamunanagar and Sirsa, eight in Faridabad, seven each in Panchkula and Jind, five each in Palwal and Kurukshetra and four in Sonepat.
The worst affected Gurugram district reported the highest number of 4740 fresh infections.
Among other districts, 1610 cases were reported in Faridabad, 1171 in Sonepat, 985 in Hisar, 767 in Karnal, 674 in Sirsa, 654 in Panchkula, 645 in Panipat, 642 in Mahendragarh and 417 in Ambala.
In the last 24 hours, 10640 patients recovered from the virus taking the total recoveries to 440590 in the state. The positivity rate increased to 7.33 percent while the recovery rate stood at 78.82 percent in Haryana.
In Haryana, Gurugram has the highest number of active cases at 38900 followed by 14149 in Faridabad and 7812 in Hisar.
Till date, more than 76.53 lakh samples have been tested in Haryana, the bulletin stated.