Weekly Covid cases lowest since April 20 in Haryana

Tribune News Service

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Chandigarh, August 9

The weekly Covid cases (August 2-8) have been the lowest at 137 since April 20-26 when 60 cases were detected.

As per the weekly status report of Haryana, the preceding week reported 11 deaths. It has been the lowest since March 1, when just eight deaths were recorded in seven days.

However, the state’s R0 has been constant at 1 since mid-June. It is a measure of how contagious is the infection. It explains the average number of people who will get infected with Covid from one person.

The cumulative positivity rate is 6.96 per cent. However, the desired rate is below 2 per cent. Meanwhile, the daily positivity rate as on August 8 dropped to 0.7 per cent, which reflects a fall in the cases.

The first Covid case in Haryana was reported on March 17, 2020, when a 26-year-old woman had got infected in Gurugram.

Since then, 7.7 lakh cases had been reported till August 8 with 9,649 deaths.

As much as 40.69 per cent of casualties (3,926) have taken place in rural areas. Nine districts — Bhiwani, Charkhi Dadri, Fatehabad, Hisar, Jhajjar, Kaithal, Nuh, Sonipat, and Mahendragarh — have reported higher Covid deaths in rural areas than urban.

As many as 38 per cent deaths (3,651) had no comorbidities while 29 per cent had multiple comorbidities, 13 had diabetes mellitus and 7 per cent had hypertension.

At the time of death, 38 per cent were on oxygen support and 45 per cent were on ventilators.

The state has reported 1,723 mucormycosis cases so far with the highest 435 patients alone came from Rohtak, followed by 401 from Hisar, 351 from Gurugram and 150 from Faridabad.