Wednesday, 28 April 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
The record breaking spree of the contagion of Covid-19 is continuing in Uttarakhand. The state health department reported a record breaking 5,703 cases of the disease on Tuesday with a whopping 96 deaths. It broke the earlier record of 5,084 cases and 81 deaths created on April 24.
The state now has 1,62,562 cumulative cases of the disease while the death toll has mounted to 2,309 in the state. The authorities also discharged 1,471 patients from different hospitals following their recovery on Tuesday. A total of 1,13,736 patients have so far recovered from the disease in the state. The explosion in the number of new cases has bearing on the recovery rate which is on downhill. It is now at 69.96 per cent and the sample positivity rate is 4.42 percent in the state.A total of 43507 samples were collected on Tuesday while 29857 samples are yet to be tested in different laboratories of the state.
In Sushila Tiwari government hospital Haldwani 16 deaths from Covid-19 were reported on Tuesday. In Government Doon Medical College (GDMC) hospital Dehradun death of 11 patients was reported while 12 patients were reported dead at Military Hospital Dehradun. In Mahant Indiresh hospital Dehradun 10 patients succumbed to the disease while five patients each died at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Rishikesh and Subharti hospital Dehradun. Four patients succumbed to the disease at the Himalayan hospital and three deaths were reported from District hospital Uttarkashi on the day.
The provisional state capital of Dehradun continues to reel under an onslaught of the disease. Here a record 2218 new cases of the disease were reported on Tuesday. In Haridwar district 1024 patients surfaced on the day. Nainital district reported 848, Udham Singh Nagar 397, Uttarkashi 242, Chamoli 214, Tehri 204, Almora 189, Pauri 132, Pithoragarh 98, Champawat 58, Bageshwar 44 and Rudraprayag 35 new patients of Covid-19 on Tuesday.
The state now has 43032 active patients of the disease. Dehradun continues to be at the top of the table of active cases of the disease with 14842 patients, Haridwar has 11892, Nainital 5712, Udham Singh Nagar 2868, Pauri 2004, Tehri 1347, Champawat 1051, Almora 840, Chamoli 822, Uttarkashi 746, Rudraprayag 550, Pithoragarh 543 and Bageshwar 355 active cases of the disease.
The administration has set up 208 containment zones in different parts of the state in an attempt to prevent the infection from spreading.
In the ongoing vaccination drive the state health department vaccinated 39180 people in different parts of the state on Tuesday. In the state 364764 people have been fully vaccinated so far as they have received both the first and second dose of the vaccine while 1583928 beneficiaries have been partially vaccinated. The Chief Operations Officer (COO) of state Covid-19 control room, Dr Abhishek Tripathi said that 601 vaccine sessions were organised in different parts of the state on Tuesday.
