The hill state of Himachal Pradesh recorded 34 new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, taking the state's infection tally to 2,365, the health dept said.According to Special Secretary (Health) Nipun Jindal, there are now 1,012 active cases in the state.Among the fresh cases, eleven were reported from Kangra, seven each from Mandi and Kullu, two each from Sirmaur, Hamirpur, Kinnaur and Shimla and one from Solan, he added. In Mandi, the seven new cases include a two-year-old girl in Jogindernagar tehsil and a woman, a district official said.
The virus has so far claimed 13 lives in the state, while 1,323 people have recovered from the infection and 15 migrated out of the state.
Eighty-nine more patients -- 60 in Sirmaur, 28 in Solan and one in Kangra - have recovered from the infection, Jindal said.
Solan has the highest number of active cases in the state at 357, followed by 179 in Sirmaur, 122 in Kangra, 88 in Shimla, 87 in Mandi, 59 in Una, 36 in Bilaspur, 32 in Chamba, 22 in Hamirpur, 16 in Kinnaur and 14 in Kullu, he said.