Gurgaon: As many as 55 persons were found positive for Covid-19 in Gurgaon on Sunday.
Also, the number of active cases in the city dropped below the 1,000-mark after around one and a half months.
There are 812 Covid patients in Gurgaon.
The last time the city had less than 1,000 active cases was on March 22, when 973 people were recuperating from the disease.
The total number of cases in the city now stands at 1,80,312 and the positivity rate is 1%.
On Sunday, two deaths were reported in the city and the fatality rate stood at 0.3%.
So far, 848 people have died of Covid in Gurgaon.
Also, 50 people recovered on Sunday.
With this, the total number of recoveries has gone up to 1,78,652.
The district’s recovery rate is 99.1%.
Containment zones in the city have declined to 17.
Health department officials said that they are continuing to carry out 5,000 tests daily despite the low rate of infection.
Meanwhile, 90 people were sent to institutional quarantine facilities on Friday.
So far, 15,51,214 people have been put under surveillance.
In the past 24 hours, the health authorities collected 4,458 samples for antigen and RT-PCR tests.
Till now, 15,48,305 samples have been sent for testing, of which 13,63,535 turned out to be negative, while the results of 2,322 are awaited.
With cases declining, new admissions to hospitals have also dropped.
At present, there are 80 cases (severe) in hospitals and one case (mild) in district Covid care centres.
As many as 731 people are in home isolation.
“We are currently witnessing a slowdown in Covid deaths as well.
The positivity rate has been at 1% for the last six days now,” said Dr Virender Yadav, chief medical officer.
In Haryana, the number of new cases as well as deaths continued the downward trend while recoveries exceeded new cases for the 27th day.
On Sunday, Haryana reported 654 new cases, 48 deaths and 1,483 recoveries.
Besides pushing the recovery rate to a new high, the day’s tally showed that six out of 22 districts, including Faridabad, Sonipat and Panchkula did not report any fatality.
Three districts reported less than 10 cases.
With this, Haryana’s cumulative Covid figure has reached 7,62,291 cases, 7,44,482 recoveries, 8,712 deaths and 9,097 active cases.