Three cases push Haryana’s tally to 295

Chandigarh, April 28

With two cases reported from Sonepat and one from Jhajjar, the state’s tally reached 295 today. After including 14 Italian nationals, Haryana’s tally would be 309.

In Sonepat, two relatives of a staff nurse of Babu Jagjiwan Ram Hospital at Jahangirpuri in Delhi tested positive today. They are her 60-year-old mother-in-law and 38-year-old husband. The nurse tested positive on April 25. She used to go to her workplace daily with another infected nurse of the same hospital by car. The tally in the district reached 24 today.

In Jhajjar, a woman tested positive in Sulodha village. She is wife of the Delhi cop who had tested positive earlier and was under treatment in the national capital. Three other members of his family tested positive on April 27. The tally in the district reached six.

Eleven patients were discharged in the last 24 hours — three each in Faridabad, Palwal and Panchkula and two in Nuh.

A total of 224 patients had been discharged so far. The recovery rate is 72.5 per cent. The recovery rate was 69.6 per cent yesterday.

The state had so far conducted 24,826 tests, with 22,578 testing negative and results awaited in 1,940 cases. Tests per million jumped to 979, up from 907 yesterday. The doubling rate of Covid cases in the state today increased to 20 days from 19 days yesterday.

Health Minister Anil Vij reiterated that the border with Delhi needed to be sealed. “As of now, the border has been sealed in Sonepat and strictness enhanced in Gurugram and Faridabad,” he said. — TNS