Gurugram man dies, 29 new cases

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 20

One person died and Haryana’s Covid tally inched closer to the 1,000-mark on Wednesday. The NCR districts of Gurugram, Faridabad, Sonepat, Panipat and Jhajjar continued to make up for most of the new cases as they accounted for 24 of the 29 patients, which took the state tally to 993.

A 38-year-old man of Gurugram’s Hari Nagar died in hospital in the early hours of Wednesday. He is the state’s 15th Covid casualty though his death was not shown in the state tally released in the evening. He was admitted on May 18 and shifted to the ICU on May 19. He was suffering from Type 2 diabetes and presented with complaints of difficulty in breathing, cough with expectoration and fever for the past five days.

Of fresh cases, eight were from Sonepat, seven from Faridabad, six from Gurugram, four from Kurukshetra, two from Panipat and one each from Jhajjar and Jind.

Five staff nurses of BPS Government Medical College for Women, Khanpur Kalan, tested positive besides a 51-year-old woman in Kundli and a nine-year old girl of Kishora village, taking the district tally to 147.

Among fresh cases in Faridabad are a 40-year-old woman and her daughter from Auto Pin slum cluster in Mujesar, a 27-year-old girl from Bharat Colony and four members of the family of a woman patient from Parvatiya Colony. The district tally has reached 170.

In Gurugram, with two cases reported from Sector 48 and one each from Sector 32, Shakti Park, Sikanderpur Ghosi and Bharti Chowk, the tally has touched 226.

In Kurukshetra, a 39-year-old woman of Laxman Colony discharged last Thursday after considering her false positive, and her 15-year-old son tested positive. Other patients were a 58-year-old woman who returned with her family from Ahmedabad on May 18 and a labourer working on a gas pipeline project in Sector 3 who had come from Ghaziabad recently. The district tally stands at seven.

In Panipat, a 25-year-old from weaver’s colony and a 32-year-old woman who had come to Panipat with her husband from Delhi two days ago tested positive. A 40-year-old labourer tested positive in Bahadurgarh town, taking Jhajjar’s tally to 91.

Total 21 persons have been cured in the last 24 hours, taking the tally to 648 and recovery rate to 65.26 per cent. The state’s doubling rate now stands at 16 days.

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