Less than 100 cases reported 8 days in a row

Gurgaon: The city reported 99 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday, the eighth day in a row it has recorded less than 100 cases. This is despite the health department ramping up testing in the last five days to 1,000 RT-PCR tests daily, along with antigen tests, confirming that the infection spread has slowed down in the area. Gurgaon’s current tally is 9,634. The city now has 683 active cases.
The health department said 114 people recovered from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of recoveries to 8,826. No one died of the infection in the city on Saturday, officials said. So far, coronavirus has killed 125 residents, 87 of whom had comorbidities. The district has a total of 683 active cases, 530 of whom are recovering at home. In the last 24 hours, two people were admitted to government Covid facilities.
Recently, the city has been conducting more RT-PCR tests than antigen tests. Since the last five days, the district has been able to conduct over 1,000 RT-PCR tests daily. The department also confirmed that it is witnessing a downward trend in the rate of infection in Gurgaon. The health authorities were able to collect 2,314 samples in the past 24 hours, 1,091 of which were for RT-PCR tests and the rests for antigen tests. According to the health department, government labs are conducting more tests than the city’s private ones. “The aim is to strengthen the testing and treatment at the public healthcare facilities in the district,” a health department official said. So far, 1,26,328 people are under surveillance in district.