Nine persons were tested positive for Covid-19 in Haryana on Sunday, taking the total tally to 296 in the state.
Among the fresh cases reported on Sunday, four of the total 16 fresh cases were from Panipat, two each from Faridabad and Hisar and one from Sonepat, according to the Haryana Health Department’s evening bulletin.
Nuh district with 57 novel Coronavirus cases, followed by Gurugram (51), Faridabad (45), Palwal (34), Sonipat (20) and Panchkula (18) are among the worst affected.
Among the total cases in Haryana, 24 are foreign nationals from Italy, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Thailand, South Africa and Indonesia and 64 people from other states of India, the bulletin said. Till now, 199 people have been discharged from hospital after recovery from the infection, leaving 94 active cases in the state. Haryana has recorded three Coronavirus-related deaths.
As on Sunday, the state has a recovery rate of 67.22 per cent, fatality rate of 1.01 per cent, Covid-19 positive rate of 1.51 per cent (proportion of positive cases to total tests conducted), the doubling rate of cases is 18 days, while tests per million being conducted are 846, the bulletin said.
As many as 21467 samples have been tested so far, out of which 19241 have tested negative. However, report of 1930 samples is still pending.
The state’s bulletin stated, out of total 296 confirmed cases, foreign nationals include 14 Italian, 6 are from Sri Lanka, 1 each from Nepal, Thailand, Indonesia and South Africa and 64 from other states include 11 from Uttar Pradesh, 10 Himachal Pradesh, 8 Tamil Nadu, 4 West Bengal, 5 Kerala, 8 Bihar, 2 Telangana, 2 Andhra Pradesh, 1 Punjab, 1 Karnataka, 1 Assam, 2 Madhya Pradesh, 6 Maharashtra and 3 Jammu & Kashmir.
An official spokesman informed that number of containment zones in districts include Nuh (45 containment zones), Palwal (18), Sonepat (15), Karnal (05), Faridabad (13), Bhiwani (2), Charkhi Dadri (4), Gurugram (26), Jind (1), Fatehabad (2), Panipat (3), Kaithal (1), Jhajjar (3), Panchkula (4), Sirsa (2), Hisar (3), Ambala (3), Yamuna Nagar (2), Kurukshetra (1) and Rohtak (2)
312 regular doctors by Health Department and 206 Ayush medical officers by Ayush Department have so far been recruited across Haryana state to tackle the crisis of Covid effectively, he said.
Fixed OPD services have been started in all the health institutions except district hospitals. In district hospitals, casualty services, medicine OPD and MCH Services are already going on and other OPD services are being made operational in a phased manner, the spokesman added.