Gurgaon: City reported more than 2,000 new Covid-19 cases for fourth consecutive days on Wednesday.
In the last 24 hours, he has added 2,704 new Covid cases with tally, a 13% surge compared to 2,385 cases Tuesday.
The last time many people tested positive in one day were in the mid-second wave on May 12 last year, when 2,747 cases were recorded in the city.
With this, the daily level of peposititivity has jumped from 20% to 22% on Wednesday.
Gurgaon also reported Covid’s second death this month on Wednesday – a man who was fully vaccinated by 66 years was treated at a private hospital.
Doctors say patients, who come from sector 4, have comorbidity of congestive heart failure.
He covid-positive and received at the hospital two days ago when his heart began to fail, where he was given liquid IV, antibiotics and other support.
The rate of pulse began to dip and he had severe hypotension episodes (low blood pressure), which finally caused a heart attack on Wednesday.
CPR is done but the patient cannot be revived, the doctor said.
On January 10, a man who was fully vaccinated by 67 years died, Covid’s first death reported this year.
The doctor said the man, who came from sector 43, had comorbidity such as hypertension, brain bleeding, heart disease, chronic liver disease and diabetes.
929 people have died after testing positive Covid so far, in which 612 has comorbidity – 268 suffer from diabetes, 146 has hypertension, 86 has kidney disease and 113 chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
The city has 13,253 current active cases, out where 13,152 is in house isolation and 101 in the hospital.
Only one case of Omicron is active at this time.
The Ministry of Health has sent 118 samples to the sequencing of the genome until now this month as part of its sentinel supervision, where 20 was found to have an Omicron variant.
Gurgaon has sent 2% of all covid positive samples for genome sequencing.
The Ministry of Health said 1,405 patients were restored on Sundays.
“We did not witness a slowdown in the case.
This surge will continue for some time.
People were asked not to be bold outside because the infection rate was very high,” the Head of the Virender Medical Officer Yadav.
After a surge surge, testing has increased, he added.
On Wednesday, 12,329 samples were collected for tests.
“Many patients come with flu-like symptoms.
The majority of Covid patients have mild symptoms at this time.
There are still many people who are reluctant to tell authorities if they test positive because of the isolation protocol and avoid doctor consultations,” said Dr.
Amitabha Ghosh, consultant (internal medicine ), Manipal Haryana Hospital, reported 6,883 new cases and 15.6% participant level on Wednesday.
While Gurgaon enrolled the highest new case in the state, Faridabad was second with 1,037 cases, followed by Panchkula (734), Ambala (472) and Karnal (372).
At present, the state has 31,150 patients active, among which 25,870 in house isolation.
It was done 46,809 tests on Wednesday.