Haryana on Sunday reported six more deaths and 8900 new COVID-19 cases taking the death toll to 10104 and cumulative case tally to 846898.
Among the worst affected districts, Gurugram and Faridabad reported 3378 and 1398 fresh infections respectively.
According to the state’s health bulletin, two deaths were reported in Panchkula while one fatality each was reported in Gurugram, Faridabad, Ambala and Jind.
There were 51252 active cases in the state and 4361 recovered from the virus in the last 24 hours.
Health Minister Anil Vij said that Haryana is being affected due to uncontrolled Corona infection in Delhi. The infection rate is very high in three districts of Haryana adjoining Delhi, but we do not need to panic because of this, he said.
Talking to the mediapersons, Vij said that Haryana has adequate health arrangements to deal with Coronavirus. Whether the patient comes from Delhi or anywhere else, he is being given complete treatment in Haryana. The increasing Corona cases in Delhi have affected the NCR region and the infection rate has increased in Gurugram, Faridabad and Sonipat, he said.
The Health Minister said that about 9000 new Corona cases have been registered in the state and half of them are from Gurugram, Faridabad and Sonipat districts.
He said that a sufficient amount of equipment and medicines are available in the state to deal with the third wave of COVID.
Among other districts, 718 cases were reported in Panchkula, 536 in Ambala, 414 in Sonepat, 360 in Karnal.
The daily positivity rate of 18.80 percent was reported on Sunday while the cumulative positivity. The COVID-19 recovery rate stood at 92.75 percent and the fatality rate was reported at 1.19 percent in the state, the bulletin added.
Punjab reports 13 deaths, 7396 new cases
Punjab on Sunday registered a whopping 7396 fresh cases of the novel Coronavirus, pushing the state’s positivity rate to 20.76 percent. With this, the state’s COVID-19 tally has reached 6,63,867, while 13 COVID-related deaths took the state’s death toll to 16,769.
Among 13 deaths, three casualties were reported from Ludhiana, two each from Mohali and Pathankot, and one each from Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Hoshiarpur, Jalandhar, Mansa, and Patiala.
Among the districts, SAS Nagar (Mohali) reported the highest 1832 fresh cases at the highest positivity rate of 68.21 percent. Following is Ludhiana with 1144 fresh cases at the positivity rate of 20.83 percent, Amritsar with 963 at 30.60 percent, Jalandhar with 570 at 14 percent, Patiala with 465 cases at 29.51 percent, Bathinda with 381 at 25.78 percent, Pathankot with 260 cases at 18.36 percent positivity rate, Ropar with 242 at 27.56 percent, Gurdaspur with 237 at seven percent, Hoshiarpur with 226 at 9.32 percent, Kapurthala 184 at 19.57 percent, and Tarn Taran with 134 fresh cases at 12.16 percent positivity rate.
Currently, the state has 41,250 active cases, including 585 patients on oxygen support; 163 patients at critical care level-III facilities; and 33 critical patients on ventilator support.
Chd reports one death, 1358 COVID cases
The union territory of Chandigarh on Sunday reported 1358 new positive cases and one death taking the total number of infections to 76628 and death toll to 1087.
According to the UT medical bulletin, a 38 years old male resident of Sector 25 was brought dead at GMSH-16 and was tested COVID positive posthumously. He was fully vaccinated.
The city’s active Covid-19 cases stands at 9203.
A high positivity rate of 22.49 percent was reported in the city on Sunday while the positivity rate in the last seven days stood at 23.42 percent.
The bulletin stated that 665 patients were cured of the disease in the past 24 hours while 67338 people have recovered till date.
A spokesman of UT Administration said that a 24x7 COVID Health Control Room is now functional in the GMSH-16 with five parallel telephone lines. Doctors, Interns and other support staff are available in the COVID Health Control Room, round the clock. The citizens can call on helpline number-1075 for all the COVID related issues like vaccination, medical oxygen, home isolation and ambulance etc.
Considering that about 98 percent COVID positive patients are in home isolation, special attention is being given by the Health Department for their wellbeing, he said.
The COVID positive patients in home isolation need not to worry because immediate medical care will be provided to them on priority, the spokesman said.
Himachal reports two deaths, 1076 fresh infections
Himachal reported two deaths and 1076 new infections on Sunday.
A 63 years old female resident from Kangra and a 16 years old male from Shimla died due to COVID, as per state’s health bulletin.
The highest number of 213 cases were reported in Shimla followed by 193 in Solan, 152 in Kangra, 133 in Sirmaur, 128 in Mandi, the state’s bulletin said.
The number of active cases in the state jumped to 11000 including the highest 2031 cases in Kangra.
624 patients recovered from the virus in the last 24 hours. The death toll stood at 3874 in the state, the bulletin stated.
The cumulative case tally stood at 243365 in Himachal.