Faridabad man is Hry’s 11th fatality

CHANDIGARH: Haryana reported eleventh death due to Covid-19 on Monday. Senior doctors said the deceased was a 65-year-old man from Faridabad, the district which has till now seen four corona-related casualties.

The victim was also a heart patient and had undergone three surgeries in the past.

The count of positive cases in the state has now reached 730.

The maximum new cases — nine — have been reported from Jhajjar since Sunday evening, including three members of an already infected person’s family. Seven new cases were detected in Faridabad, five in Sonepat, three in Gurugram, two in Charkhi Dadri and one in Mahendergarh, the health department bulletin stated. Senior doctors said the seven cases of Faridabad included five vegetable sellers or their contacts, a bank employee and a shopkeeper.

In Sonepat, the new patients included the wife and son of an infected vegetable seller from GanauHisar: Biologist on Covid duty shifted to anti-malaria unitr, a contact of a nurse working at a private hospital in the district, a woman from Kasampur village and a man from Garh Shahjahan Pur village. In Charkhi Dadri, one of the patients was a man who had returned from Gujarat last week and in Mahendergarh, the patient had a Delhi connection. He had gone to Delhi to bring his father, who works with Rajasthan Police.

11-YR-OLD GIRL TESTS POSITIVE K’SHETRA

An 11-year-old girl has tested positive in Dhanani village of Kurukshetra. Chief medical officer Dr Sukhbir Singh said the girl was in contact of the 27-year-old woman cook posted in a Panchkula police station. A 43-year-old BSF jawan has also tested positive in Hisar. He had returned from Delhi on May 7. Both these cases were not included in the health bulletin.

As many as 37 patients were discharged after their treatment on Monday — 27 in Ambala and 10 in Sonepat. It was the highest number of persons cured in a day in the state so far.

WAS A HEART PATIENT AND HAD UNDERGONE THREE SURGERIES; CASES REACH 730