2 die, tally crosses 1K mark in Haryana

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, May 21

With 38 more persons testing positive for Covid — 27 from Gurugram, Faridabad and Sonepat alone — the Covid tally in Haryana shot up to 1,031 on Thursday. Two deaths were reported from Gurugam and Jind, though the state health bulletin is yet to record the latter.

A 33-year-old resident of Sector 53, Gurugram, who was on ventilator and suffering from fever, cough and shortness of breath, died at PGIMS-Rohtak. The health authorities clarified that two more Gurugram residents had died at PGIMS since yesterday, but not due to Covid.

A 50-year-old man from Jind who tested positive on Tuesday and was admitted to the civil hospital in Agroha died on Wednesday night. He was admitted to a private hospital on May 14 and later tested Covid-positive. He was suffering from lung cancer.

Among the 12 fresh cases reported in Gurugram today, four are from Sector 10A, two each from Dundahera, Krishna Colony and Jawahar Nagar and one each from Chandra Lok and Sector 54.

Eleven cases were reported from Faridabad, including four women. Two of the women were from Bharat Colony and work in a private factory, while the other two are NIT residents. One is the wife of a Covid patient and the other an old age home worker.

At Sonepat, with the testing positive of three nurses working at BPS Government Medical College for Women, Khanpur Kalan, now 16 staff members have been infected. Staff nurses had alleged inadequate protective facilities during duty and non-duty hours and had protested on Tuesday too. They had also alleged that the PPE kits given to them were of poor quality and were difficult to wear even for three hours.

In Panipat, a 36-year-old woman and her two children, who were close contact of a Covid-positive vegetable vendor in Samalkha, also got infected. A 30-year-old man who had come from Delhi two days ago also tested positive.

In Kurukshetra, two youths aged 25 and 27 from Ajrana Khurd village who returned from Andhra Pradesh on Monday tested positive.

A 31-year-old man of Solo village in Karnal tested positive, taking the number of cases to 21 in the district. He came from Delhi on May 20 and his sample was taken the same day.

A 34-year-old woman schoolteacher of Sector 2 in Rohtak, who is suffering from cancer, was found Covid-positive. She was undergoing treatment at Balaji Action Cancer Hospital in Delhi and later went to Medanta Hospital in Gurugram. The patient has now been sent to the PGIMS isolation ward.

A cancer patient from Sector 2 of Panchkula tested positive, taking the district tally to 26. The 55-year-old’s whereabouts are not known. “He went to Delhi for cancer treatment on May 16. His sample was sent for testing and he was found Covid-positive on May 17. His family alerted health officials on May 21,” Panchkula CMO Dr Jasjeet Kaur said.

Meanwhile, 33 patients were discharged from hospital in the last 24 hours which took the number of cured cases to 681 and the recovery rate to 66.05 per cent.

Covid patient tests +ve for 7th time

Hisar: A Covid patient from Dharoli village of the district has again tested positive on Thursday. He earlier tested positive for Covid on April 25. Health officials said he had been tested for the eighth time. Barring the fourth report, which was negative, the youth has been testing positive for Covid. TNS

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