The number of novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) patients in Uttarakhand climbed to 1215 with the State health department reporting 62 new cases of the disease on Friday. One patient of the disease, a 73 year old man who was also said to be suffering from Asthama died in Almora district on Friday. With this the death toll from Covid-19 in the state has now climbed to 11.
On the day, 23 new patients of the disease were reported from Dehradun while 14 cases were reported from the mountainous district of Rudraprayag. In Tehri, eight new patients surfaced while five patients were reported from Almora. In Nainital, four patients were found while three were reported from Champawat district. From Chamoli, three patients were reported while one patient each was found in Haridwar, Pauri and Udham Singh Nagar districts.
On Friday, 47 patients of the disease were discharged from different hospitals of the state after their complete recovery.
Meanwhile, the staff members of the Government Doon Medical College (GDMC) hospital, which is serving as the dedicated Covid-19 treatment centre have come under threat of infection.
On Friday, three members of the nursing staff deputed in the ICU and other wards were found infected with the disease. One doctor, a junior resident, a nursing staff and a female guard of the hospital had already been infected by the disease.
The additional secretary, state health department, Yugal Kishore Pant said that reports of 88 samples were found negative for the disease on Friday. He added that reports of 6623 samples are still awaited by the department. On Friday, a total of 566 samples were collected for COVID -19 testing. The authorities have so far taken swab samples of 35967 suspected patients for COVID-19 test. Out of the total samples taken, 4.22 percent samples have been found positive for the disease.
The doubling rate of disease in the state is 10.34 days while the recovery percent in the state is now at 25.77. A total of 33454 persons are kept in institutional quarantine by the state health department.
Uttarakhand now has 855 active cases of the disease. Dehradun with 273 active cases is maintaining its position at top of the table of Covid-19 positive active patients. Nainital district is at second position with 183 active cases. The Tehri district is at third spot with 104 active cases while Haridwar has 58 active patients of the disease.
Almora district now has 46 active cases while Udham Singh Nagar has 39 active patients. Pauri and Pithoragarh districts have 32 and 27 active cases respectively while Champawat district has 31 active cases. With 14 new cases on Friday Rudraprayag now has 19 active cases while Chamoli and Uttarkashi districts have 16 and 15 active cases of the disease respectively. Bageshwar with 12 active cases is now at the bottom of the table.