CHANDIGARH/SHIMLA: Coronavirus continued to play havoc in Haryana, with 1,670 cases surfacing on Sunday, most of them in the NCR districts, while Punjab recorded maximum deaths in the region that includes Himachal Pradesh. A total of 2,200 new cases and 26
fatalities were reported by the three states.
Of the new cases in Haryana, maximum 529 came from Gurgaon—its highest for a day—while six patients died across the state. The latest figures take the
death toll to 1,795 and the state’s case tally to 168,880, out of which 12,634 are active cases.
The recovery rate remained stable at 91.43% and total 1,221 persons discharged during the day pushed the number of cured patients to 154,451.
Besides two deaths each in Gurgaon and Faridabad, one death each was reported from Panchkula and Bhiwani districts. The latest fatality rate is 1.06%. Faridabad followed Gurgaon with 296 new cases, while Hisar saw another wave of spike with 192 fresh cases.
Punjab on Sunday detected 325 new cases and 12 patients died, taking the state’s overall count of cases to 133,975, while 4,214 have succumbed to the virus so far. Currently, there are 4,195 active cases.
In the last 24 hours, two persons each died in Jalandhar, Patiala, Hoshiarpur and Tarn Taran, and one each in Fazilka, Moga, Sangrur and Ludhiana. Of the latest cases, Ludhiana recorded 68, Jalandhar 61 and Mohali 32. Total 368 patients discharged after recovery in the state took the number of cured persons to 125,566.
Meanwhile, eight Covid deaths and 205 new positive cases were reported on Sunday in Himachal Pradesh, while 102 positive patients were declared cured. Fresh cases were reported from Shimla (57), Kullu (28), Solan (25), Una (22), Kangra (18), Bilaspur and Hamirpur (14 each), Mandi (12), Lahaul-Spiti (8), Sirmour (5) and Chamba (2).