City’s Covid cases cross 5.5k as 106 more test positive

Gurgaon: The city reported 106 fresh Covid-19 cases on Thursday, taking its tally to 5,569. Four people also succumbed to the infection.
So far, 96 people have died of the disease in the city. Out of these, 60 had comorbidities. A total of 4,291 people have recovered till now, 212 of them on Thursday. Gurgaon has 1,182 active cases currently. Of these, 1,083 patients are in home isolation and 99 are hospitalised.
Till now, the health department has sent 36,419 samples for testing, out of which 29,202 have returned negative and the results of 322 others are awaited. Nearly 42,269 people have been put under surveillance so far.
At present, the seven private labs in the city that have approval for conducting Covid-19 tests are only collecting samples for the conventional RT-PCR tests. Dr Virender Yadav, chief medical officer, Gurgaon, said the health department has now asked these labs if they can conduct antigen and rapid antibody tests as well.
“At present, both antigen and sero-surveys are being conducted only by the health department,” he said, adding that in the past three days, 2,000 tests, including RT-PCR and antigen, had been conducted daily.