Himachal on Monday reported 19 fatalities and 865 fresh COVID-19 cases pushing the death toll to 3127 and the cumulative case tally to 190330. 2167 people also recovered from the virus and the total recoveries now stands at 173560 in the hill state, according to the health bulletin.
In the last 24 hours, a maximum of eight deaths were reported in Kangra district, which also recorded the highest number of 213 fresh cases. Till now, Kangra has reported a maximum of 933 fatalities due to COVID-19 followed by 558 fatalities in Shimla in the state. There were 13621 active cases in Himachal.
A spokesperson of Health Department said that an analysis of the last five weeks show that the cases steadily increased from May 10 to 16.
He said that districts namely Bilaspur, Kinnaur, Shimla, Sirmaur, Solan saw their peaks one week before the state achieved its peak i.e. May 3 to 9. District Lahaul and Spiti had its peak from April 26 to May 2 while districts namely Chamba, Hamirpur, Kangra, Kullu, Mandi and Una registered their peaks on May 10 to 16.
He added that there has been a decrease in the number of cases in the last two weeks across all the districts of the state.