Haryana on Sunday witnessed its biggest single-day spike with 496 Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours.
The State count crossed 4000 mark touching 4,448 positive cases including 2,946 active patients. Four more deaths were reported in Haryana taking the toll to 28.
A day before, the state had recorded 355 cases of coronavirus while 316 were reported on Friday.
The unlock 1.0 have been the worst for the State, with over 300 cases, on average, recorded per day.
Due to the continuous spike in cases, the case-doubling rate in Haryana on Sunday dipped to six days, Covid positive rate increased to 3.15 per cent and recovery rate further dipped to 33.14 per cent.
Till date, 1474 patients (including 194 in the last 24 hours) have recovered and have been discharged from hospitals.
“Out of 496 fresh cases, 230 were reported from Gurugram, 73 from Sonepat, 56 from Faridabad, 25 each from Rohtak and Narnaul, 17 from Nuh, 15 from Bhiwani, 8 from Karnal, 7 from Ambala, 5 each from Palwal, Panchkula and Fatehabad, 4 from Hisar among other cases. All districts except Charkhi Dadri reported positive cases on Sunday,” according to the State Health Department’s evening bulletin.
On May 18, Haryana’s total count of Covid-19 patients had reached 928, out of which 316 were active patients. However, on May 31, the total count crossed 2000 with 1023 active cases. Under the unlock 1.0 which began this month, the cases has crossed 4000-mark on Sunday.
The worst-affected districts of the state with the maximum number of positive cases are Gurugram with 1,992 cases, Faridabad with 676 cases and Sonepat with 423.
As many as 1.45 lakh samples have been tested till date in Haryana. The report of 4,719 samples is awaited, the State’s bulletin stated. The active cases in the State stood at 2946 while 1474 have recovered, it said.
The Covid-19 positive rate stood at 3.15 percent, recovery rate at 33.14 per cent and the doubling rate of coronavirus cases at 6 days on Sunday in Haryana, the bulletin added.