Noida: While Covid’s case continued to remain under 1,000-marks during the past week, Ghaziabad and Gautam Budh Nagar reported one of their respective deaths on Sunday.
In the last 24 hours, GB Nagar added a total of 364 new cases, while 429 people were tested positively in Ghaziabad.
A 78-year-old man who was treated at Santosh Medical College on January 21 after complaints of shortness of breath, died of several complications in Ghaziabad.
According to the doctor, patients have a history of diabetes, heart disease and also suffer paralysis for the past six years.
The situation has deteriorated because of excessive coughing and weakness, said the doctor, added that the Septuagenarian was not vaccinated for comorbidity, said district health officials, added that 762 people had also recovered from infection in the last 24 hours.
The district currently has 3,173 active cases.
Meanwhile, district health officials in Ghaziabad said that since June last year, the highest number of Covid tests – around 2, 55,000 samples – were carried out in the last 30 days a month.
In June 2021, a total of 1,71,737 samples were collected in this district, which were dipped in the following months – 1.33,121 in July, and 1,20,039 in August.
In September last year, 1,49,513 samples were collected for Covid tests, while 1,38,952 were collected in October, 83,540 in November and 1,71,316 in December.
At present, the number of district active cases is at 2,134.
On Sunday, 15,631 people were vaccinated in the district, while GB Nagar only saw 1,878 vaccination.