Haryana reports 2,526 +ve cases, 19 deaths

In yet another spike in COVID-19 cases, Haryana on Sunday reported 2526 fresh COVID-19 cases and 19 deaths.With this, the state’s tally of positive cases reached 93641 and the total toll stood at 975, according to the Haryana Health Department’s evening bulletin.

Only a day before, the state had witnessed its biggest single-day spike of 2,783 cases, which had taken the total infections in the state past the 90,000-mark. In the last 24 hours, four COVID-19 fatalities were reported from Karnal, three deaths each were reported from Faridabad and Ambala, two deaths each from Gurugram, Rohtak, Bhiwani and Yamunangar and one death from Kurukshetra.“Out of 2526 fresh cases reported on Sunday, a maximum of 339 infections were reported from Gurugram. 298 fresh positive cases were reported from Faridabad, 295 from Karnal, 182 cases from Ambala, 155 from Panipat, 142 from Rohtak, 167 from Sonepat, 130 from Kurukshetra, 126 from Hisar and 120 from Panchkula,” the health bulletin stated.

Among the 319 critical COVID-19 patients in the state, 276 were on oxygen support while 43 were on ventilator, it stated According to the bulletin, the fatality rate is recorded at 1.04% in Haryana. The case-doubling rate in Haryana on Sunday stood at 28 days, COVID positive rate was 6.31 per cent and recovery rate was recorded at 77.52%.

72587 patients including 1874 in the last 24 hours have recovered and have been discharged from hospitals in the state.

There were a total of 20079 active cases in Haryana till the evening, the bulletin stated. The worst-affected district in the state-Faridabad has till now reported 15860 positive cases and 191 deaths.

Other two worst affected districts namely Gurugram and Sonepat have so far reported 15263 and 5997 cases respectively. Gururgam has reported 147 COVID-19 deaths while Sonepat recorded 41 fatalities.

As many as 14.90 lakh samples have been tested till date in Haryana. The report of 6681 samples is awaited, it added.