:With two more fatalities, the Covid-19 death toll climbed to 22 in Himachal Pradesh on Thursday, while 61 fresh cases pushed the state''s infection tally to 4,473.
A 41-year-old man, who died in a Kangra hospital within minutes of being admitted around Wednesday midnight, was found to have coronavirus positive on Thursday, Chief Medical Officer Gurdarshan Gupta said.
Gupta told PTI that the patient''s samples were taken around midnight and the report came positive on Thursday. The patient was suffering from high fever for the last three or four days, he added.
In Solan, a 51-year-old man with comorbidities succumbed to the virus, a district official said.
With this, the number of deaths due to COVID-19 has risen to 22 in the hill state.