More persons recovered from Covid-19 than the number of positive cases reported in the State on Sunday. According to the Health department, while 54 persons tested positive for Covid and two patients of the disease died, a total of 57 Covid patients recovered from the disease in the state on Sunday. The State now has a total of 1,725 active cases of Covid-19 with the recovery percentage standing at 95.11 per cent.
According to the official data, the total cumulative positive Covid-19 cases detected in the state so far are 95,640 out of which 90,967 have been cured. So far a total of 1,631 Covid patients have died in the state leading to a death rate of 1.71 per cent. According to the departmental figures, of the positive cases detected on Sunday, 23 were from Nainital, 15 from Dehradun, 10 from Haridwar, two from Udham Singh Nagar and one each from Chamoli, Champawat, Pithoragarh and Tehri. No new positive cases were reported on Sunday from Almora, Bageshwar, Pauri, Uttarkashi and Rudraprayag districts. When it comes to the number of active cases there are currently 405 in Dehradun district, 303 in Nainital, 239 in Haridwar, 136 in Almora, 128 in Bageshwar, 82 in Chamoli, eight in Champawat, 59 in Pauri, 75 in Pithoragarh, 37 in Rudraprayag, 86 in Tehri, 102 in Udham Singh Nagar and 65 in Uttarkashi district. At present there is only one containment zone in the entire state which is in Dehradun.
Monday, 25 January 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
