Haryana records 3 more deaths, toll mounts to 17
CHANDIGARH: Three Gurugram residents succumbed to coronavirus disease at Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS), Rohtak, in the past two days, taking the total Covid-19 death count in Haryana to 17.
A 38-year-old from Gurugram’s Hari Nagar, who was admitted to PGIMS on May 18, died on Wednesday. The patient was suffering from cough and fever for the last five days. On the same day, a 50-year-old patient from Gurugram’s Mohammadpur, who was hospitalised on May 16, also died of the infection, PGIMS spokesperson Varun Arora said. He added that the patient had been diabetic for the past one and a half years.
Another Gurugram resident (33), who was also put on ventilator support after battling fever, cough, shortness of breath, loose motions and sore throat, died on Tuesday, Arora said.
Eight new cases – six nurses of
Bhagat Phool Medical College for Women in Khanpur Kalan, a nine-year-old girl who returned from Mumbai with her parents, and the wife of an infected vegetable seller in Kundli – surfaced in Sonepat on Wednesday. A labourer hailing from Rajasthan also tested positive for the disease in Jhajjar’s Bahadurgarh. Likewise, seven new cases were reported from Faridabad, while six new cases came from Gurugram, four from Kurukshetra, two from Panipat and one from Jind.
Panipat CMO Dr Sant Lal Verma said two new cases include a 32-year-old woman from Faridpur village and a 31-year-old employee of a private factory who resides in the weavers’ colony of Panipat city.
Meanwhile, with the discharge of 21 more patients, the total number of cured persons has reached 648. Of the total 85,347 samples sent for testing so far, 79,746 were found to be negative while 4,608 reports were still awaited.