Gurgaon: A four-year-old girl with Leukemia is among the three people who died in the city on Friday after testing positive Covid.
Officials said he was the youngest covid patient who gave up on infection in the current wave so far.
Daily cases, meanwhile, passed 3,000 again after floating around 2,800-mark for two days.
3,509 people were tested positive on Friday, up from 2,845 Thursday.
With this, the level of participants also jumped from 22.6% to 34%, which was the highest in this wave so far.
Gurgaon now has 25,306 active cases.
Inpatient level remains consistently low.
On Friday, 175 Covid patients were undergoing hospital treatment.
The four-year-old girl who died suffered from acute lymphoblastic leukemia and was treated at a private hospital on January 3 for it.
The girl, who underwent chemotherapy, was tested positive while undergoing treatment and suffering a heart attack on Friday.
Another patient who surrendered to infection was a 40-year-old woman, who also had lymphoblastic leukemia.
He was hospitalized on January 11 for blood transfusions and imposed ventilator support after testing positive.
The doctor said he had not finished the vaccine dose.
The third patient – a 32-year-old man – fully vaccinated and does not have comorbidity, said the doctor.
He was hospitalized on January 16 with fever, vomiting, decreasing appetite and fatigue.
He was found to have Covid a few days later and suffer from a heart stop on Friday.
In the last 11 days, the city has reported 15 Covid deaths – one on January 10, another on January 12, respectively on January 15 and 16, two each on January 17, 19 and 20 and three on January 21 .
So far, 942 people have died after testing positive Covid in Gurgaon.
At least 624 of these patients have comorbidities, officials said.
Officials at the Ministry of Health said they were with comorbidity must be stored under the more watches, especially in hospitals.
“Covid became nosocomial (derived from the hospital) now, which is why the fatality is increasing.
The deaths that occur are incidental findings.
People who have infected comorbidity when hospitalized for other health problems.
Everyone needs to take all kinds of precautions when Visiting Hospitals, especially those who have comorbidity, “said Virender Yadav, the head of the medical officer.
Most children, they said, did not show severe respiratory problems or see a decrease in oxygen saturation.
“Some children experience persistent vomiting, who do not respond to oral antiemetic drugs.
Such children may need intravenous droplets in hospitals for one or two days.
Children tend to experience fever seizures from any type, including Covid.
They may need to be hospitalized for 1-2 days.
Another reason for hospitalization includes high fever, loose movement and almost zero oral intake, “said Dr.
Krishan Chugh, Director and Hod of Pediatrics in Fortis Hospital.
The 34% Friday’s front level is the highest in the city in this wave.
On January 18, the level of participation was 31% when the city did 10,191 tests.
On Friday, 10,401 samples were examined.