Monday, 05 July 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
The state health department reported 78 new cases and 144 recoveries from the novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) on Sunday. The cumulative count of Covid-19 patients in the state has now increased to 3,40,724 while a total of 3,25,692 patients have so far recovered from the disease. Death of two patients from Covid-19 was reported by the health department on the day which increased the death toll from the disease to 7331 in the state. The recovery percentage from the disease is now at 95.59 and the sample positivity rate is at 6.05 per cent in the state. The authorities collected 26,991 samples in different parts of the state on Sunday.
Death of two patients was reported at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Rishikesh on the day.
The department reported 17 patients from Dehradun, 14 from Haridwar, nine each from Nainital and Udham Singh Nagar, eight from Rudraprayag, seven from Uttarkashi, five from Pithoragarh, three each from Chamoli and Tehri, two from Champawat and one from Pauri on Sunday. No patients were found in the Almora and Bageshwar districts.
The state now has 1,749 active patients of the disease. Dehradun district is at top of the table in the list of active cases with 694 cases while Bageshwar is in the second position with 186 active cases. Pithoragarh has 140, Nainital 128, Pauri 116, Chamoli 95, Champawat 82, Tehri 66, Uttarkashi 62, Rudraprayag 56, Almora 49 Haridwar 44 and Udham Singh Nagar 31 active cases of the disease.
The state reported only one new case of Mucormycosis (Black fungus) on Sunday. Two patients were reported dead from the disease on the day. A total of 507 patients of the disease have so far been reported in the state out of which 106 have died. In the ongoing vaccination drive, the health department vaccinated 57,897 people in 352 sessions held on the day. A total of 8,75,899 people have been fully vaccinated so far in the state while 36,99,202 have received the first dose of the vaccine in the state.
