5 succumb, 120 cases in Haryana

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh/karnal, Jan 22

With five deaths and 120 fresh cases, the Covid tally in the state jumped to 2.67 lakh on Friday.

Two deaths were reported from Kaithal while one each from Panipat, Yamunanagar and Jhajjar.

Among the fresh cases recorded, the maximum cases came from Faridabad at 25, followed by 24 from Gurugram and 15 each from Ambala and Panchkula.

A total of 209 people recovered from Covid in the last 24 hours. At present, there are 1,585 active cases in the state.

As many as 15,961 persons got inoculated on Friday.

Meanwhile, Additional Chief Secretary (Home-cum-Health) Rajeev Arora on Friday came to the city to review the Covid vaccination drive.

He held a meeting with officials and directedthem to motivate health workers for the vaccination. Arora asked them to get all the health workers vaccinated in a week.

Friday was the fifth day of the vaccination and so far, around 3,000 health workers, out of the total 10,700 identified health workers, got their first dose.

Arora checked the vaccination programme at Kalpana Chawla Government Medical College and the Karnal Civil Hospital.