No let-up as Haryana sees 13,867 new cases, 162 deaths
Hisar recorded maximum deaths followed by Panipat and Fatehabad
CHANDIGARH: While 13,867 new Covid-19 cases were detected in Haryana on Friday, 13,584 patients recovered in the past 24 hours and 162 people succumbed to the infection, as per the health bulletin.
On Friday, over one lakh people were vaccinated, increasing the cumulative coverage of vaccination to 42.29 lakh.
Of total 162 fatalities, 22 deaths were recorded in Hisar, 21 in Panipat, 18 in Fatehabad, 17 inn Gurugram, 12 in Bhiwani and 11 in Jind. Among districts with maximum new cases were Gurugram with 3,588 cases, Faridabad 1,587, Sonepat 1,075 and Hisar 1,143. Health teams in Haryana collected 52,514 samples in the last 24 hours.
There were 1,15,963 active patients in state on Friday when the day’s positivity rate came down to 26.27% from
Thursday’s 29.92%.
Free medical kit for those in home isolation
Haryana health minister Anil Vij on Friday released a home isolation kit to be distributed among Covid patients in home isolation across state. There are 98,000 patients undergoing treatment at their houses.vij said the kit prepared by health and AYUSH department contains 15 items including allopathic and ayurvedic medicines, pulse oximeter, digital thermometer, steamer, three-layer mask, ayush kwath,
giloy ghanvati, anu oil, ORS, and a booklet with information related to Covid-19. Vij said the cost of this kit is around Rs 5,000, but this kit will be made available free of cost to all in home isolation. The booklet included in the kit contains information regarding Covid and its treatment. The health department will make door-to-door visits to deliver the kit.
Karnal admn opens home care support centre
Faced with shortage of hospital beds, the Karnal district administration
has set up a temporary home care support centre for Covid patients. Karnal deputy commissioner Nishant Kumar Yadav said the support centre will have a capacity of 20 oxygen
beds and the capacity will be increased to 100 beds by the end of this week. The centre has been set up for mild and moderate home-isolated patients who just need oxygen support.