It was the day of highest single day recoveries in Uttarakhand as the health department discharged 1488 patients from different parts of the state on Friday. Incidentally the previous highest single day recovery was on September 18 when 1285 patients were cured. The authorities reported 928 fresh cases of the disease on Friday which increased the tally of the disease to 45332 in the state. The death toll from Covid-19 increased to 555 on Friday with 13 deaths reported by the department on the day. A total of 33642 patients have so far been cured from the disease and the percentage recovery from the disease has now increased to 74.21 percent. The doubling rate for Uttarakhand in the last seven days is 33.81 and infection rate is 7.16 percent.
Out of the 1088 patients recovered on Friday, 542 are from Dehradun, 383 from Udham Singh Nagar, 176 from Haridwar, 99 from Nainital, 86 from Bageshwar, 40 from Uttarkashi, 34 Chamoli and 33 from Tehri.
The authorities reported 203 patients of the disease in Dehradun on Friday. In Nainital 173 patients were reported while 117 and 107 patients were reported from Udham Singh Nagar and Pauri respectively. Haridwar reported 87, Chamoli 65, Almora 51, Tehri 33, Champawat 30, Uttarkashi 24, Bageshwar 21, Rudraprayag 13 and in Pithoragarh four cases of the disease were reported.
Uttarakhand now has 10934 active patients of the disease with Dehradun maintaining its lead at top of table with 3662 active cases of the disease. Haridwar is on second spot with 1965 active patients and Nainital on third position with 1273 active cases. Udham Singh Nagar has 1103, Pauri 683, Uttarkashi 406, Almora 390, Chamoli 347, Pithoragarh 303, Tehri 284, Champawat 231, Rudraprayag 155 and Bageshwar 132 active patients of the disease. To prevent the infection from spreading further the administration has set up 552 containment zones in different parts of the state.