Thursday, 29 April 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
Record 108 deaths and 6,054 new cases reported in one day
Getting intensified with each passing day the contagion of the novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) breached the six thousand number mark of new cases and hundred deaths on Wednesday. In one single day the small mountainous state recorded a whopping 6,054 new patients and reported 108 deaths on Wednesday. Only a day before the contagion had set up a new record of 5,703 cases and 96 deaths which was smashed on Wednesday.
The state now has 168616 cumulative cases of the disease while the death toll has mounted to 2,417 in the state. On a positive note the authorities discharged 3,485 patients from different hospitals following their recovery on Wednesday which too is a record of recoveries in a single day. A total of 1,17,221 patients have so far recovered from the disease in the state. The recovery rate in the state now stands at 69.52 per cent and the sample positivity rate is 4.54 per cent in the state.
A total of 44,774 samples were collected on Wednesday while 30,782 samples are yet to be tested in different laboratories of the state.
The Sushila Tiwari government hospital Haldwani reported 27 deaths from Covid-19 on Wednesday. The authorities reported the deaths of 12 patients in Military Hospital Dehradun and 11 in All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Rishikesh on Wednesday. Similarly 10 deaths each were reported at Himalayan hospital and Velmed hospital Dehradun. Similarly eight patients succumbed to the disease at Gautam hospital Rudrapur, seven at Doon Medical College (GDMC) hospital Dehradun and four at Mahant Indiresh hospital Dehradun on Wednesday. Three patients each were reported dead at Lehman hospital Dehradun, Prasad Doon Hospital and Vivekanand hospital Nainital. Two patients each lost their lives to Covid-19 at Arogyadham hospital Dehradun and Medicity hospital Rudrapur and Base hospital Kotdwar on the day while one patient each died at Max hospital Dehradun and Sanjeevani hospital Kashipur on Wednesday.
The provisional state capital of Dehradun continues to be the hardest hit by the disease as a record 2,329 patients were reported on Wednesday. Here 2,218 new cases were reported on Tuesday. In Haridwar district 1,178 patients surfaced on the day. Udham Singh Nagar district reported 849, Nainital 665, Chamoli 175, Pauri 174, Champawat 153, Almora 140, Bageshwar 128, Tehri 109, Uttarkashi 81, Pithoragarh 51 and Rudraprayag 22 new patients of Covid-19 on Wednesday.
The state now has 45,383 active patients of the disease. Dehradun continues to be at the top of the table of active cases of the disease with 16,397 patients, Haridwar has 10,909, Nainital 5,462, Udham Singh Nagar 3,646, Pauri 2,150, Tehri 1,406, Champawat 1,200, Chamoli 932, Almora 917, Uttarkashi 793, Pithoragarh 583, Rudraprayag 505 and Bageshwar 483 active cases of the disease.
The administration has set up 213 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 35,898 people in different parts of the state on Wednesday. In the state 3,76,590 people have been fully vaccinated so far as they have received both the first and second dose of the vaccine while 16,08,000 beneficiaries have been partially vaccinated. The Chief Operations Officer (COO) of state Covid-19 control room, Dr Abhishek Tripathi said that 506 vaccine sessions were organised in different parts of the state on Wednesday.
