Himachal Pradesh on Saturday recorded its sharpest single-day spike of 5,424 COVID-19 cases that took the infection tally to 1,28,330 while 37 more fatalities pushed the death toll to 1,817, according to data updated till 7 pm.
The state had 18,725 samples tested for COVID-19 and the state has a positivity rate of 28.97 per cent. Himachal Pradesh has 31,893 active COVID-19 cases. As many as 3,007 more coronavirus patients recovered from the infection, taking the total number of recoveries to 94,586, officials said.