Haryana records 7,177 Covid cases, 29 deaths; Gurugram on top

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 18

With 7,177 fresh cases, the Covid tally was pegged at 3,56,971 in Haryana on Sunday.

Gurugram continued to report maximum cases with 2,401 cases followed by Faridabad (998) and Sonepat (573).

The death toll reached 3,415 with the state reporting 29 fresh deaths.

Kaithal reported a maximum of four deaths followed by three each in Faridabad, Hisar, Yamunanagar and Jind. While two deaths each were reported from Gurugram, Ambala, Karnal, Sirsa, Bhiwani and Fatehabad, Kurukshetra reported one death.

There are 42,217 active cases in the state while 3,11,339 patients have been discharged after recovery.

While the Covid positivity rate is pegged at 5.23 per cent, the recovery rate is reported to be 87.22 per cent. The fatality rate is reported to be 0.96 per cent.

Meanwhile, president of the Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee (HPCC) Kumari Selja has said that the “failure” of the BJP-JJP government to tackle the Covid infections has created a grave crisis for people of the state.

In a statement issued here today, she said the reports of the “collapse” of health services coming from different places in Haryana were shocking. If the government had strengthened the health system in the last one year, people would not have been waiting for hospitals, beds, ventilators, oxygen, medicines now, she alleged.

Selja said the situation had deteriorated so much that neither patients were getting beds nor ventilators. There was also the lack of oxygen and essential medicines. So much so, a woman corona patient had died due to lack of beds in Agroha. Despite this, the government was not paying any attention towards strengthening the health services, she alleged.

The crisis had exposed the government’s big claims about the improved health infrastructure.