Friday, 09 July 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
The state health department reported no death from the novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) for the second consecutive day on Thursday in Uttarakhand. The authorities reported only 64 new cases and 120 recoveries from the disease on the day.
The cumulative count of Covid-19 patients in the state has now increased to 3,41,023 while a total of 3,26,267 patients have so far recovered from the disease. In the state 7338 people have so far lost their lives to Covid -19. The recovery percentage from the disease is now at 95.67 and the sample positivity rate is at 5.95 per cent in the state. The authorities collected 27,624 samples in different parts of the state on Thursday.
The department reported 17 new patients from Dehradun, 13 from Haridwar, five from Chamoli, four each from Almora, Nainital, Pauri, Pithoragarh and Udham Singh Nagar, three each from Rudraprayag and Tehri, two from Champawat and one from Uttarkashi on Thursday. No new case was reported from Bageshwar district on the day.
The state now has 1,445 active patients of the disease. Dehradun district is at top of the table in the list of active cases with 511 cases while Bageshwar is in the second position with 146 active cases. Nainital has 127, Pauri 124, Pithoragarh 112, Chamoli and Champawat 93 each, Uttarkashi 46, Rudraprayag 45, Tehri 41, Udham Singh Nagar 42, Haridwar 40 and Almora 29 active cases of the disease.
The state reported four new cases of Mucormycosis (Black fungus) and one death from it on Thursday. A total of 514 patients of the disease have so far been reported in the state out of which 103 have died.
In the ongoing vaccination drive, the health department vaccinated 35,955 people in 483 sessions held on Thursday. A total of 9,69,723 people have been fully vaccinated so far in the state while 38,61,709 have received the first dose of the vaccine in the state.
