25 fresh COVID-19 cases reported in Haryana, tally rises to 818

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, May 14 

Twenty-five fresh COVID-19 cases were reported from the worst-affected Gurgaon and Faridabad districts among others on Thursday, taking the infection tally in the state to 818.

As per the state health department’s bulletin, 14 cases were reported from Faridabad, four from Gurgaon, three from Jhajjar, two each from Jind and Karnal, and one each from Mahendragarh and Rewari.

Gurugram, Sonepat, Faridabad and Jhajjar are the worst-hit districts with 170, 120, 133 and 87 coronavirus cases, respectively.

Faridabad reported the 14 new cases of the deadly disease, in what is the highest, single-day jump in cases in the district, taking the total to 133.

New cases include a policeman posted in the sector 17 police station and a one-year-old child from Adarsh Nagar in Ballabgarh.

Three members of a family in Sector 62 and three persons from SGM Nagar, who attended a Jamaat in Sangli in Maharashtra recently, have also tested positive for the disease. Another member of the Sector 62 family had tested positive for the contagion earlier.

A 17-year-old girl from Shiv Sharda colony, an employee of a private hospital in sector 8, a resident each from Dabua colony and Tilpat village and a man from NIT area, who visited a hospital in New Delhi, have also tested positive.

A woman of sector 10 here, who is the kin of a vegetable seller has also been tested positive, according to a report received late Wednesday night. With agency inputs

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