Covid-19: No new case in Faridabad, but Haryana set to cross 20,000

CHANDIGARH: Haryana’s Covid-19 count on Friday reached 19,934 cases and 290 deaths, as 565 more people were found infected with the virus and three patients succumbed to it.
Barring Faridabad, which had been topping the table of new patients, and Charkhi Dadri, all districts in the state got new patients.
Also, 394 patients receovered from the virus, taking the number of recoveries to 14,904 and the recovery rate of 74.77%. With a doubling rate of 20 days, the state has total 4,740 active patients, of whom 73 are critical. A death each was reported from Rohtak, Ambala and Fatehabad districts.
Gurugram got the highest number of cases, 111. With 967 patients still under treatment, the district’s overall count for the virus has risen to 6,578 cases, It has reported 103 deaths.
Mahindergarh, Rewari and Hisar emerged as new hotspots. Sixty-eight new cases were reported in Mahindergarh, and 66 each in Hisar and Rewari. Also, 50 new patients were from Sonipat. It was followed by 38 in Panipat, 27 in Ambala, 24 each in Rohtak and Karnal, 18 in Nuh, 16 in Jhajjar, 15 in Palwal, 10 in Sirsa, eight in Jind, seven in Bhiwani, five in Kaithal, Panchkula and Fatehabad, and one each in Kurukshetra and Yamunanangar.
The testing rate rose to 13,899 tests per million of population as 3,52,243 persons had been tested for the virus so far. Of them, 3,26,679 had tested negative so far and reports of 5,730 samples were awaited.