In Haryana, Faridabad near worst-hit district tag

Chandigarh: Haryana Covid count on Tuesday reached 37,796 cases and 448 deaths as 623 new patients were found infected and eight died of it.

In all, 756 new recoveries took the state’s recovery rate to 82.62% and the total to 31,226. Now, there are 6,122 active cases, of whom 118 patients are on oxygen support and 43 on ventilator support.

Doubling rate remained stable at 26 days, while the testing rate rose to 26,472 tests per million as 6,71,064 persons had been examined so far.

The spike in cases of Covid continued in second-worst hit district Faridabad as it was almost about to equalise Gurgaon’s tally .

Faridabad got maximum 169 new patients and one death, taking its tally for total cases to 9,341 with 135 deaths.

Rohtak reported 96 new patients and one death, taking it total to 1,689 cases with 24 deaths. Panipat reported 50 new cases and its overall total rose to 1,302 .

With a recovery rate of more than 90%, Gurgaon reported 46 new cases. The district could lose the tag of being the worst-hit district as its overall tally of 9,348 with 124 deaths is close to Faridabad’s. The district has 756 patients.

Ambala reported 32 new cases and its total rose to 1,742. Also, 29 new cases in Sonipat took the district tally to 3,013 cases.

Yamunangar and Fatehabad got 22 new cass each, but there was also a death in Fatehabad. There were 20 new cases in Rewari, 19 each in Karnal and Sirsa, 16 each in Kurukshetra and Jhajjar, 15 each in Bhiwani and Palwal, 12 in Panchkula, eight in Jind, six in Kaithal, five in Nuh, four in Hisar, and three in Mahindergarh.

Of the remaining deaths, three were from Sirsa and one from Jhajjar.