Faridabad man dies, 23 fresh cases in Haryana

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 17

With 23 fresh cases, Haryana’s Covid tally reached 910 today. With the death of one more patient, 14 persons in the state had succumbed to the disease. The fresh cases were reported from Gurugram (11), Rohtak (4), Faridabad (3), Panipat (2) and Karnal, Sirsa and Mahendragarh (1 each).

A 45-year-old man from Bharat Colony in Faridabad died in the wee hours today. He is the sixth patient to die of the disease in the district. According to health officials, he was a diabetic. He was shifted to the ESI Hospital on May 13 after he tested positive.

There were three fresh cases in the district — a 36-year-old health worker with a private hospital, a 32-year-old bank employee from Sector 14 and a 38-year-old factory worker from Bharat Colony.

Among the 11 cases in Gurugram are a health worker and a security guard with a multi-national company. Other cases are from Sushant Lok Phase 1, Sector 55 and Sector 48. The total cases in the district had now reached 204.

In Rohtak, two sanitation workers deployed at a Covid ward, an ambulance driver and wife of a casualty medical officer tested positive.

Panipat reported two positive cases — a 28-year-old from Hali Colony and a 22-year-old from Chhotu Ram Colony, who returned from Mumbai on May 15. The total cases in the district had now reached 38.

A 28-year-old vegetable seller from Ateli in Mahendragarh was confirmed to be infected. With this, the district’s count reached seven. A 40-year-old man of Chaugama village in the Indri block of Karnal district tested positive.

Among the 48 cases to be cured today, 25 were discharged from Jhajjar, 14 from Gurugram, five from Jind, three from Panchkula and one from Palwal. A total of 562 patients had been cured so far, with a recovery rate of 61.75 per cent.

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