Gurugram: 511 recover in a day, 90% were in home isolation

GURUGRAM: In one day, Gurugram announced the recovery of 511 Covid-19 patients. It’s the highest so far, with a single day accounting for 29% of all 1,776 recoveries. Six Covid-19 patients died and Gurugram added 183 cases to reach a count of 3,477 on Monday.
“Over 90% of those who recovered on Monday had been in home isolation,” said Gurugram chief medical officer Dr Virender Yadav. A Union health ministry notification had on May 10 revised guidelines for home isolation, allowing those with mild or no symptoms to forego hospitalisation. “There is no need for testing after the home isolation period is over,” it had said. That period, the guidelines had said, was 17 days from sampling and 10 days of no fever.
But it was only on Monday that district health officers realised that they did not need to test an asymptomatic Covid-19 patient after the isolation period was over. “I had convened a meeting of all medical officers today. But some officers did not know that no second sample testing is needed to confirm recovery,” Yadav said.
Working out the dates shows this spike in recoveries goes back to the time the surge in cases began. Going back 17 days from Monday would be May 30, the day Gurugram had reached 677 cases, having added 157 cases that day and 340 cases in three days. By June 6, which is 10 days before Monday, Gurugram had 1563 cases.
The combined recovery figures over six days prior to Monday had been 686, an average of 114. With Monday’s recoveries, the number of active cases dropped to 1,664, all of which have only been reported in the past 10 days.
Of the six Covid-19 patients who died on Monday, two had been brought dead to the hospital. “The six men were 86, 77, 75, 42, 39 and 38. Two were brought dead. The four others had comorbidities,” a health official confirmed. The number of deaths has also been increasing in Gurugram. Nearly 70% of the city’s 37 Covid-19 deaths were reported over the past week. Haryana’s toll touched 100 on Monday, of which Gurugram has reported the highest number so far. It is closely followed by Faridabad, which reported five more deaths on Monday.