Thursday, 01 July 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
15 hospitals report these deaths which had occurred in the past
The unreported deaths from the Covid-19 by the hospitals in the state are becoming a major cause of the concern for the authorities in Uttarakhand. On Wednesday the state health department added a whopping 218 deaths in the death tally which had occurred in the past but were not reported earlier. With these deaths the death toll in the state from the Covid -19 disease has shot to 7316. As per the health department the backlog deaths were reported by 15 hospitals on the day. A total of 1210 backlog deaths have been reported so far in the state.
Meanwhile the state health department reported 177 new cases and 243 recoveries from the novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) on Wednesday. With it the cumulative count of Covid-19 patients in the state increased to 3,40,255 while a total of 3,25,009 patients have so far recovered from the disease. Death of three patients from Covid-19 was reported by the health department on Wednesday. The recovery percentage from the disease is now at 95.52 and the sample positivity rate is at 6.15 percent in the state. The authorities collected 23,953 samples in different parts of the state on Wednesday.
Death of one patient each was reported on Wednesday at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Rishikesh, Mahant Indiresh hospital Dehradun and Yog Mata Pilot Baba hospital Haridwar.
Haridwar district reported 56, Dehradun 37, Nainital 25, Tehri 11, Uttarkashi and Pithoragarh nine cases each and Udham Singh Nagar eight cases of the disease on Wednesday. All other districts reported less than five cases of the disease on the day.
The state now has 2,101 active patients of the disease. Dehradun district is at top of the table in the list of active cases with 825 cases while Pithoragarh is in the second position with 243 active cases. Bageshwar has 182, Haridwar 181, Nainital 129, Pauri and Chamoli 103 each, Champawat 73, Tehri 61, Rudraprayag 55, Almora 49, Udham Singh Nagar 50 and Uttarkashi 47 active cases of the disease.
The state reported no new case of Mucormycosis (Black fungus) on Wednesday. A total of 495 patients of the disease have so far been reported in the state out of which 95 have died. In the ongoing vaccination drive, the health department vaccinated 62,962 people in 577 sessions held on the day.
