Recoveries cross 30K-mark in Haryana
CHANDIGARH/ROHTAK: Recoveries from Covid-19 in Haryana went past 30,000 on Monday even as the state recorded 654 new infections. As many as 780 people got recovered/discharged in the past 24 hours, stated a health bulletin.
The virus, meanwhile, claimed seven more lives, taking the death toll to 440 (313 men, 127 women). Four people died of Covid-19 in Panipat, two in Kurukshetra and one patient succumbed to the virus in Bhiwani.
Until Monday evening, Haryana had reported 37,173 positive cases, but so far 30,470 patients have recovered from the disease.
Now, there are 6,263 active patients in the state, including 130 critical patients undergoing treatment in 16 different hospitals. The recovery rate saw further improvement as it reached 81.97%, while the doubling rate climbed to 26 days in Haryana.
It was after a long gap that Gurugram witnessed a drop in new cases as it registered only 43 fresh infections, whereas Faridabad logged 173 new corona carriers. Panipat reported 106 new cases, Panchkula 60, Rewari 50, Hisar 33, Kurukshetra and Yamunanagar 27 each, Sonepat 25, Karnal 20, Sirsa 17, Palwal 15, Jind 14, Fatehabad 10, Ambala and Jhajjar 9 each, Kaithal 7, Mahendergarh 5, Nuh 4, and Bhiwani 3. According to Rewari DC Yashendra Singh, of the total 50 new cases, at least 33 were from Rewari city, 10 from Bawal, six from Kasola and one from Nahar village. A confectioner from Luhari village, along with three labourers, was among the new patients registered in Jhajjar.
Bhiwani civil surgeon Dr Jitender Kadian said a 43-year-old armyman, who had returned home on July 31 from Nagaland, a 68-year-old retired armyman, who is undergoing cancer treatment at a private hospital, and a 60-year-old woman tested positive . “A 62-year-old woman succumbed today,” he added. Kurukshetra CMO Sukhbir Singh said among the new patients were a six-year-old boy from Brahma colony, a 14-year-old girl from Shahbad’s Jyoti Nagar and a 15-year-old girl from Ratgal.
2ND COVAXIN DOSE: PGIMS TO SEND 9 SAMPLES TO PUNE
The blood samples of nine volunteers, who were administered the second dose of Covaxin at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS), will be sent to the National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune on Tuesday to check how many antibodies were developed in their bodies.
Dr Savita Verma, principal investigator of the human trials , said they had collected blood samples of nine subjects who received the second dose of 0.5 ml intramuscular injection. The report will be known by the end of this week, she added.