Gurugram ahead of other districts in Haryana in testing

CHANDIGARH: At 36,990 tests per million, district is leading in Covid-19 sampling in Haryana, suggests data from the health department. The population of Gurugram district is around 1.5 million.
Two more districts falling in the National Capital Region (NCR), Rohtak and Faridabad, occupy number two and three positions with 21,160 and 20,130 tests per million, respectively. Gurugram and Faridabad have the highest number of around 6,000 and 5,000 Covid-19 cases, respectively.

The state’s average testing is around 13,000 per million. Pachkula district is at fourth place with 19,470 tests per million and Sonepat at fifth with 15,760 tests. State’s health and family welfare minister Anil Vij’s home district Ambala is close to Sonepat with 14,970 tests per million.
In terms of sample positivity rate, Faridabad district has the highest positivity rate of 13.26% and Gurugram is second at 11.16%. Most other districts have moderate levels of sample positivity. Kaithal, Panckula, Yamunanagar and Jind, however, have the lowest sample positivity rates of 1.21%, 1.37%, 1.39% and 1.40%, respectively. The overall sample positivity rate of Haryana is 5.66%.
As far as fatality rate is concerned, Jind, Panipat and Hisar districts are leading with 3.01%, 2.62% and 2.40%, respectively. Some of the districts including Fatehabad, Panchkula, Sirsa, Yamunanagar and Kaithal have recorded 0% fatality. The state’s average fatality rate is 1.06%.