Cases continue to mount in Haryana, 76 more +ve

Chandigarh: NCR districts continued to pose a challenge as they accounted for 74 of the 76 new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday.

The state’s tally hit 1,381. With another death, the state’s casualty count for the coronavirus reached 18. Also, 14 patients were discharged from hospitals. On Tuesday, Haryana saw the highest jump of 94 cases.

The highest number of cases were reported from Faridabad, 25. The district total has so far reported 258 cases. Gurugram got 20 new cases, which has taken the district total to 337. Among the discharged patients, 10 were from the district and the number of its active cases is now 142.

Eleven cases were from Sonipat, eight from Palwal, four from Jhajjar, and three each from Rohtak and Narnaul.

The remaining two cases were from Sirsa and Karnal.

The patient in Sirsa is a bootlegger who was arrested on Monday. His report came on Tuesday, after he was bailed out. As a precaution, the police team which accompanied him has been quarantined and the police station he was kept has been sanitized.

With the state getting 170 cases in two days, its recovery rate has come down to 60.68 %. The doubling rate remained stable at 17 days.

The testing rate in the state was recorded at 4,132 per million. So far, 104,747 persons have been tested. Of them, 99,555 have been found negative.