Haryana on Saturday registered a record daily rise of 10,491 Covid-19 cases and 60 fatalities that pushed the State’s total tally to 413,334 and the death toll to 3703, a health department bulletin said.
Among the districts that reported a big spike in cases are Gurugram (3316), Faridabad (1530), Hisar (857), Sonipat (802), Karnal (578), Panipat (525), Yamunanagar (370) and Sirsa (348), Panchkula (252). Gurugram along with Faridabad and Sonipat is fuelling the current surge in infections in Haryana.
The latest deaths include eight from Gurugram; seven each from Faridabad and Ambala; six each from Sonepat, Hisar and five from Bhiwani.
The number of active Covid-19 cases in Haryana stands at 69,384. So far, 340,247 people have recovered and the state has a recovery rate of 82.32 per cent, it stated.
The daily Covid cases’ positivity rate in Gurugram has reached 23 per cent, officials said on Saturday.
The district has recorded 2,000 plus Covid cases during the last one week out of which 200-300 patients required hospitalisation, according to an official statement of the district administration. The administration said that in Gurugram, the recovery rate of Covid patients is 78.19 per cent and the mortality rate is 0.42 per cent.
5724 CASES, 92 DEATHS IN PUNJAB
Ninety two more people died from coronavirus in Punjab on Saturday as the state reported another record daily spike of 5724 cases, pushing its tally to 332,110, according to a bulletin. So far, the infection has killed 8356 people in the State.
Eleven people each succumbed to the infection in Amritsar and Mohali, 10 in Ludhiana, eight in Gurdaspur and six each in Jalandhar and Sangrur.
Ludhiana logged 861 cases, the highest in the state, followed by 802 in Mohali, 592 in Bathinda, 544 in Jalandhar and 465 in Patiala. The number of active cases jumped to 46, 565 on Saturday.
A total of 2949 coronavirus patients were discharged after recovering from the infection, taking the number of cured people to 277,189, the bulletin said. There are 61 critical patients who are on ventilators while 556 are on oxygen support. A total of 69,03, 246 samples have been collected for testing so far in the state, it said.
711 NEW CASES, 3 DEATHS IN CHANDIGARH
Chandigarh on Saturday recorded 711 Covid-19 cases, the second single-day spike of Covid-19 since the pandemic first began in March last year. These numbers of Covid-19 cases in the city took its cumulative infection tally to 37,943. In the last few days during the ongoing second wave of the pandemic, the city has been witnessing over 600 covid-19 cases.
Three more fatalities due to the viral disease were reported in the city in a span of 24 hours, pushing its overall death toll to 433, according to a health department bulletin. While 408 men tested positive, the number of women infected is 303.
The total number of samples tested in the last 24 hours was 3671 while the overall number of tests conducted was 382,125.
While cases were reported from all sectors, Manimajra reported 44 new cases, Maloya had 20 cases. As many as 428 people were discharged from various facilities of the city, taking the total number of cured persons to 32,680, it stated.
24 DEATHS, 2,073 NEW CASES IN HIMACHAL PRADESH
Twenty-four more people died from coronavirus in Himachal Pradesh on Saturday as 2,073 fresh cases surfaced, pushing the state’s infection tally to 86,138, an official said. So far, the infection has claimed 1,291 lives in the state, Special Health Secretary Nipun Jindal said.