Struggling to contain the spread of Covid-19, Haryana on Thursday saw another grim day of record new cases with 9742 new infections and 55 deaths, highest in a single day.
With this, the active cases jumped to 58597 in the State. The State’s death toll reached 3583 while the total case tally stood at 390989.
Among Covid-19 patients, there were 1814 critical patients in the state out of which 1647 were on oxygen support while 167 were on ventilators, according to the state’s health bulletin.
The worst affected districts of Gurugram and Faridabad reported ten fatalities each in the last 24 hours. Among other districts, six fatalities were reported in Jind, five each in Karnal, Panipat, four in Bhiwani, three each in Fatehabad and Yamunanagar, two each in Ambala, Panchkula, Hisar and one each in Sirsa, Kaithal and Nuh.
Gurugram recorded the maximum of 3553 new cases followed by Faridabad (1342), Sonepat (859). Among other districts, Hisar reported 580 cases, Karnal 530, Panchkula 459, Panipat, 360, Fatehabad 203 cases.
In Gurugram, the active cases jumped to 18112 followed by 7322 in Faridabad and 4629 in Sonepat.
In the last 24 hours, 6512 patients recovered from the virus taking the total recoveries to 328809 in the state.
Over 70.19 lakh samples have been tested till date in Haryana, the bulletin stated.