6 more Haryana districts attain critical tag as contagion statistics get grim Over 70% cases concentrated in four NCR districts: Data
QUARANTINE STATUS
CHANDIGARH: Six more districts in Haryana have joined Faridabad, Gurugram, Sonepat and Rewari this week for having more than 200 coronavirus active cases and more than 15 active cases per lakh population, both critical values as per the parameters recommended by the Union health ministry.
Health officials said this indicated that contagion spread is picking up in other parts of the state besides the national capital region (NCR).
The newly marked critical districts having over 200 active cases are Hisar, Rohtak and Ambala while Jhajjar, Mahendragrah, Panipat and Rohtak have bagged the critical tag for having more than 15 active cases per lakh population, as per the health department statistics.
Another worrying aspect is that the doubling rate for infection, which is calculated over a seven-day period, has fallen below the critical value of less than 14 days in five districts for the first time since the outbreak. These are Hisar (10.3 days), Mahendergarh (13.8 days), Panipat (10.8 days), Rewari (11.1 days) and Sirsa (13.6 days).
While the sample positivity rate, which reveals the number of positive cases per sample tested, has increased since July 5 in three NCR districts, there have been no new additions in the number of districts displaying critical value of over 6% positivity rate. The sample positivity rate in Faridabad has increased to 14.2% from 12.9%. In Rewari, it has gone up to 9.2% from 7% and in Sonepat, the increase is 6.9% from 6.8%. The rate, however, came down from 11.8% to 9.8% in Gurugram this week. Bhiwani with a sample positivity rate of 5.9% and Jhajjar with 5.5% are closing in to cross the 6% critical mark.
However, additional chief secretary (ACS), health, Rajeev Arora, said Haryana’s recovery
Patients in home isolation: 2,345 (45.64% of total active cases)
Patients in hospital isolation: 2,394 against 9,800 hospital beds
Patients in quarantine centres: 399 against about 41,000 quarantine centre beds
Patients on ventilator support: 9 against 1,068 ventilator beds rate of infected cases is over 75% and the fatality rate has come down to 1.38%. “Those two aspects and the fact that active cases are in and around 5,000 per day matter the most,” he said.
ANTIGEN TESTING POSITIVITY RATE LOWER
Following central government’s diktat, the state government had increased the Standard Q Covid-19 antigen detection testing in the five troublesome NCR districts of Gurugram, Faridabad, Sonepat, Jhajjar and Rohtak.
More than 15,000 antigen tests have been done in Gurugram with a positivity rate of 3.5%. The antigen positivity rate in Faridabad has been 8.4% while it is 4.9% in Sonepat, 2.3% in Jhajjar and 1.4% in Rohtak, as per the last week’s statistics.
The ACS said the fact that the positivity rate is low in the NCR districts despite increased antigen testing is an encouraging sign. “Now, all the districts have started the antigen testing. We are also buying two lakh more antigen testing kits,” Arora said.
CHANDIGARH: Haryana continued to grapple with the fast spreading Covid-19 on Tuesday with the state recording 699 new infections and four fatalities in the last 24 hours, the health bulletin stated.
Two patients in Gurugram and one each in Rewari and Palwal districts lost their battle to the virus, taking the state’s death toll to 312.
The total number of positive cases in the state stood at 22,628, while the active cases were 5,226.
As per the data, until Tuesday evening, more than 70% (15,923) of the cumulative number of positive cases (22,628) were confined to Gurugram, Faridabad, Sonepat and Rohtak districts.
Similarly, at least 57% (2,996) of the total active cases (5,226) are also in these four NCR districts. Gurugram has 1,084 active cases, Faridabad 893, Sonepat 606 and Rohtak 413.
New cases were recorded in 18 districts with Gurugram taking the lead where 160 fresh infections were reported followed by 115 in Faridabad and 96 in Rewari.
Among other districts where new cases were detected included Sonepat (55), Ambala (46), Rohtak (40), Mahendergarh (43), Jhajjar (26), Palwal (23), Sirsa (19), Nuh (18), Panipat and Karnal (15 each), Bhiwani (12), Kaithal (9), Jind and Panchkula (3 each), and Yamunanagar (1).
Meanwhile, 453 patients recovered on Tuesday even as the Covid-19 positive rate stood at 5.9%.
SOME RELIEF AS RECOVERY RATE GOES PAST 75% AND FATALITY RATE DROPS TO 1.38%, SAYS ACS, HEALTH
HISAR MP DISCHARGED
Hisar MP Brijendra Singh on Tuesday got discharged from a Delhi hospital.
“I don’t have any symptoms, but I still am not a Covid-negative patient. I will be appearing for a test in the next couple of days and till then, would remain in home quarantine and take medicines as per doctors advice,” the MP added.
He was shifted to the Delhi hospital four days ago when his fever couldn’t subside.
GURUGRAM, FARIDABAD, SONEPAT AND ROHTAK REGISTER 15,923 OF 22,628 INFECTIONS; AT LEAST 57% OF TOTAL ACTIVE CASES ALSO IN THESE FOUR DISTRICTS