Witnessing yet another spike in Covid-19 infections, Haryana on Thursday reported 11 deaths and 2872 fresh positive cases. The death toll due to Covid-19 has reached 3230 while the total infections jumped to 307510 in the State. A day before, the state had reported 2366 positive cases and 11 fatalities.
“Three people died in Yamunanagar, two in Ambala and one each in Hisar, Kurukshetra, Jhajjar, Palwal, Kaithal, Jind in the last 24 hours due to the virus,” stated the Haryana Health Department’s evening bulletin.
Gurugram district continued to be worst affected due to the second wave of infections in the state. The district recorded the highest number of infections at 741 followed by 378 in Faridabad and 284 in Karnal. Among other districts, Panchkula reported 239 cases, Ambala reported 199 COVID cases, Kurukshetra 186, Hisar 117, Yamunanagar 137, Sonepat 89 cases.
The active cases crossed 17000-mark in the state and was recorded at 17129 till the evening.
The worst affected district -Gurugram reported the highest number of active cases at 4454 followed by 2045 in Karnal and 1506 in Faridabad. Over 64.87 lakh samples have been tested till date in Haryana, the bulletin stated.
324 NEW CASES, 1 DEATH IN CHANDIGARH
A 70-year old man who had tested positive for Covid-19, died in Chandigarh taking the total death toll in the city to 389 on Thursday. As per health bulletin, City witnessed 324 more Covid-19 cases and the number of total cases rose to 29,521. The number of active cases now rises to 3115. A total of 329 patients were discharged after they recovered from the infection, taking the number of cured persons to 26,017. So far, 331,288 samples have been taken for testing. As many as 3548 beneficiaries were given the Covid-19 vaccine at 55 sites in the city on Thursday taking the figure of vaccinations to 105,240.
6 DEATHS, 621 FRESH CASES IN HIMACHAL
Six more residents succumbed to COVID-19 in Himachal as 621 fresh positive cases surfaced on Thursday in the state.