Haryana over 5,000-mark with 355 new Covid-19 cases

CHANDIGARH: In Haryana, six new deaths took the Covid-19 toll to 45 on Tuesday and 355 new cases pushed the total count above the 5,000-mark. With this, the count has reached 5,209. The state has 3,357 active cases.
Out of the total count, 3,057 cases have come in the past 10 days and majority of them are from NCR districts. Even on Tuesday, the NCR districts of Gurugram, Faridabad, Sonipat, Rohtak, Palwal and Rewari dominated in the total count. The state has been seeing at least 14 new cases a hour in the past 24 hours.
Two deaths each have been reported from Gurugram and Faridabad and one each from Rohtak and Sonipat districts. Around 50 persons are reported to be critical and are on oxygen and ventilator support in various hospitals across the state.
Gurugram continues to top the table with 164 new cases where total count has gone up to 2,329, followed by Faridabad with 41 cases, Sonipat (38) and Rohtak (28).
As many as 15 cases have been reported from Rewari, 13 from Palwal and 12 from Jind district. Nine cases have been reported from Hisar and seven each have come from Bhiwani and Panchkula. Five cases have come from Yamunanagar, four from Mahendergarh and three each from Karnal, Kurukshetra and Ambala districts. One case each has been reported from Jhajjar, Panipat and Fatehabad.
The surge in cases has once again disturbed the recovery rate, which has come down to 34.69 on Tuesday. The Covid positive rate has gone to 3.50% of the total testing and fatality rate has gone to .86%.