Haryana reports 24 new coronavirus cases, one fatality

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, May 2

Haryana reported 24 new coronavirus cases and one death from the fatal illness on Saturday.

The development takes the state’s coronavirus numbers of 396 if 14 foreign nations are counted and 382 without that count.

A 63-year-old woman from Ambala City who diagnosed with coronavirus on Monday died at Chandigarh’s Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research on Saturday, Civil Surgeon Dr Kuldeep Singh said.

This was the second Covid death reported in the district.

He said the woman was a chronic diabetic, and had kidney and liver problems patient for which she underwent dialysis thrice a week for the past 25 years.

This takes Haryana’s coronavirus death toll to five.

Panipat (11), Jhajjar (6), Gurugram (4), Faridabad (2), Sonepat (1), and Yamunanagar (1) all reported new cases.

Jhajjar reported six more cases, all from Bahadurgarh town. Five of these were vegetable sellers and labourers linked to Delhi’s Azadpur Market—the place where officials said a large majority of Jhajjar cases might have got their infection from.

The sixth is a nurse working at a hospital in Delhi.

All six have been admitted to PGIMS in Rohtak.

Some 33 of Jhajjar’s 40 cases are vegetable sellers or labourers in Bahadurgarh and Jhajjar who made frequent trips to or were connected with Delhi’s Azadpur Market.

One of the biggest markets for vegetables and fruit in the country, the market caters to the needs of over 10 districts of Haryana that fall under the National Capital Region, as well as those of West Uttar Pradesh and some parts of Rajasthan and Punjab.

In Yamunanagar, a 27-year-old man who recently returned from a pilgrimage to Gurdwara Hazur Sahib in Maharashtra’s Nanded tested positive. The development takes the number of cases in Yamunagar district to four, of which three have been declared cured.

A 20-year-old woman from Panipat city’s Gokul Colony tested positive on Saturday morning. That number went up to 11 by evening after 10 more people, including 4 journalists, tested positive.

Civil Surgeon Dr SL Verma said: “We received 40 reports in the evening, of which 10 persons including four journalists tested positive”.

The development takes the district tally to 24.

A-32-year-old woman tested positive for Covid-19 in Sonepat’s Gohana, taking the district tally to 27.

Gurugram reported four new cases.

In Faridabad, a 10-year-old boy from Sector- 88 whose father recently died of coronavirus and a 25-year- old woman from Milhard colony in the NIT area who is a contact of earlier positive case both tested positive.