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Covid-19 cases decreasing rapidly in U’khand

Three deaths, 110 new patients reported on Friday. No patient detected in Almora, Pauri and Uttarkashi districts

The Covid-19 contagion is fast diminishing from the state of Uttarakhand. The new cases of the disease are now concentrated in the three districts of Dehradun, Haridwar and Nainital. On Friday ten out of 13 districts of the state reported less than five new cases of the disease. Three districts reported no case on the day. Meanwhile the number of novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) cases in Uttarakhand increased to 95464 on Friday with the state health department 110 new cases of the disease.

The department also reported the death of three patients on Friday which increased the death tally to 1629 in the state.  The health authorities discharged 183 patients from different hospitals of the state following their recovery on the day. A total of 90730 patients have so far recovered from the disease. The recovery percentage in the state now stands at 94.04 and the sample positivity rate is 4.67 percent.

Two patients of the disease were reported dead at Sushila Tiwari government hospital Haldwani on the Friday while one patient succumbed to the disease at Government Doon Medical College (GDMC) hospital.  Out of 183 patients recovered on the day, 72 were from Dehradun while 48 were from Nainital.

The state health department reported 54 new patients of the disease from Dehradun, 29 from Nainital, 13 from Haridwar, four from Udham Singh Nagar, three from Rudraprayag, two each from Champawat and Pithoragarh, one each from Chamoli, Bageshwar and Tehri districts. No new patient of Covid-19 was detected in Almora, Pauri and Uttarkashi districts on the day.

  Uttarakhand now has 1795 active cases of the disease. Dehradun is at continuing to remain at top of the table of active cases with 424 cases while with 311 active cases Nainital is at second spot. Haridwar is at third position with 245 cases, Almora has 133, Bageshwar 129, Udham Singh Nagar 125, Chamoli 88, Tehri 87, Pithoragarh 82, Uttarkashi 75, Pauri 55 and Rudraprayag 36 active cases of the disease. With only five active cases of Covid-19, Champawat is at the bottom of the table.

Saturday, 23 January 2021 | PNS | Dehradun

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