In yet another day of major spike in Covid infections, Haryana on Friday reported the highest-single day death toll at 60 and highest ever fresh cases at 11854.
This is the first time that the State has seen more than 10000 infections in a single day. The death toll has now reached 3643 while the total case tally crossed 4 lakh in the state.
The total caseload stood at 402843 which included 64057 active cases.
The overall positivity rate in the state jumped to 5.72 per cent while the recovery rate dropped to 83.19 per cent. The fatality rate was at 0.90 per cent.
The three districts of Gurugram, Faridabad and Sonipat, all falling in the National Capital Region, continue to witness a sharp jump in new cases and deaths. With the continuous surge in new cases in Gurugram district, ICU and ventilator beds are reportedly almost filled to capacity there.
In the last 24 hours, nine fatalities were reported in Gurugram, eight in Faridabad, seven each in Hisar and Panipat, six each in Sonepat and Jind, five in Panchkula, four in Bhiwani three in Fatehabad, two each in Kurukshetra, Yamunanagar and one in Nuh districts, according to the state’s health bulletin.
There were 1814 critical patients in the state out of which 1634 were on oxygen support while 180 were on ventilators, the bulletin stated.
As per the health bulletin, Gurugram reported the highest of 4319 new cases followed by Faridabad (1450), Sonepat (915). Among other districts, Hisar reported 885 cases, Karnal 616, Panchkula 453, Yamunanagar 420, Panipat 396, Jind 331, Fatehabad 268, Ambala 252, Jhajjar 235, Bhiwani 212 and Kurukshetra 171 cases.
In Gurugram, the active cases have crossed the 20000-mark and stood at 20759 till the evening. There were 8036 active cases in Faridabad, 5057 in Sonepat, 4365 in Hisar, 4102 in Karnal among others. In the last 24 hours, 6334 patients recovered from the virus taking the total recoveries to 335143 in the state.
The state tested 49152 samples in the last 24 hours. More than 70.68 lakh samples have been tested till date in Haryana, the bulletin stated.