Gurgaon: The city reported 104 new
Covid-19 cases on Thursday, taking its tally to 60,201. Gurgaon has reported over 100 fresh cases for the first time this year, and after a gap of 84 days — daily new cases had witnessed a decline after December 24 last year, when the city had reported 113 cases.
With this, the district administration has increased the number of
containment zones in the city from four to 23. “Our teams are carrying out random sampling in these 23 areas to isolate patients at the earliest. Travel restrictions have also been imposed. People who are
testing positive are in the age group of 20 to 50 years. They are venturing out often, usually for work, and are thus getting exposed to the virus,” said Dr Virender Yadav, chief medical officer, Gurgaon.
The city’s positivity rate is 2.2%. The health department said 80 patients recovered on Thursday, bringing the total number of recoveries to 59,182. The recovery rate stands at 98.4%. No one died of the infection on Thursday. So far, 360 people in the city have died of Covid, of whom 277 had comorbidities.
As of Thursday, the city has 659 active cases, and 600 of the patients are in home isolation. The number of active cases had shown a downward trend from January 18 till March 10, after which they have been slowly rising again.
One person was sent to an institutional quarantine facility on Thursday. So far, 8,85,029 people have been put under surveillance in the city. In the past 24 hours, the health authorities collected 4,321 samples for antigen and
RT-PCR tests. Till now, 8,81,443 samples have been sent for testing, of which 8,16,921 returned negative while the results of 2,923 are awaited.