Haryana has witnessed the biggest single-day spike for the second time with 795 Covid-19 positive cases reported on Monday in the State. With another big spike, the cases have crossed 32,000 in Haryana and the State’s tally stood at 32,127.
Earlier, it was on July 17 that the State had reported the highest single-day spike with 795 Covid-19 positive cases. A day before, Haryana had witnessed 794 fresh positive cases while 783 infections were reported on July 25.
Five deaths have also been reported in the last 24 hours taking the State’s toll to 397. Three persons succumbed to Covid-19 in Faridabad while one each died in Ambala and Nuh districts.
Faridabad has reported a maximum of 218 positive cases on Monday taking the total number to 7,911 in the district. With three more deaths in the last 24 hours, the district has till now reported 123 fatalities, maximum in Haryana. Another worst affected district-Gurugram has till now reported 8,720 infections and 120 deaths. Sonepat with 2,792 positive cases has reported 31 fatalities.
“Out of 795 fresh cases, 218 were reported from Faridabad, 108 from Gurugram, 91 from Rewari, 81 from Karnal, 80 from Ambala, 50 from Sonepat, 35 from Hisar, 31 from Sirsa, 22 from Jhajjar among other cases. Out of critical patients admitted in the hospitals, 132 patients were on oxygen support while 24 were on ventilator,” the Haryana Health Department’s evening bulletin stated.
According to the bulletin, the fatality rate is recorded at 1.24 per cent in Haryana. The case-doubling rate in Haryana on Monday stood at 23 days, Covid positive rate was 5.80 per cent and recovery rate was recorded at 77.96 per cent.
25,046 patients, including 662 in the last 24 hours, have recovered and have been discharged from hospitals in the State. There are a total of 6,684 active cases in Haryana, the bulletin stated.
As many as 5.59 lakh samples have been tested till date in Haryana. The report of 5783 samples is awaited, it added.
HEALTH MINISTER URGES CURED PATIENTS TO DONATE PLASMA
Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij on Monday urged the people who have recovered from the Covid-19 to come forward to donate their plasma so that those who are undergoing treatment for this infection can also recover from it quickly.
Vij said only those individuals who continue to remain healthy for at least 14 days after recovering from the infection can donate their plasma and it is necessary to further ensure that at the time of donation they should be healthy.
He said the plasma which is being collected in plasma banks will be made available in Government hospitals only as of now. But in future, if the collection increases, the plasma would be provided in other hospitals too, he said.
The Health Minister further said that orders have been given to inspect all Covid hospitals in the State. In these hospitals, the availability of medicines, food and other facilities being given to the patients will be inspected.
On risks of re-infection in the infected patient, he said that till now no case has been reported in the state where a patient after testing negative for Covid-19 infection has again become positive. So far, more than 26,000 people have recovered from the virus in the State.
At least two Covid-19 positive patients can be treated with the plasma donated by a person who has recovered from the infection, he added.