Four new Covid infections and recoveries each in Gurgaon today

Indian Express

2 days ago

Four new coronavirus cases were detected in Gurgaon on Sunday, when as many Covid recoveries were also reported. All the Covid patients in the millennium city are under home isolation.
Sunday's cases are a 61-year-old male resident of Sector 45 having travel history from Delhi, a 34-year-old male resident of Sector 45 with no travel history, a 43-year-old male resident of Sector 49 having no travel history, and a 32-year-old male resident of Sector 42 with no travel history.
As per data shared by the district administration, 97 samples were tested on Sunday. There have been no deaths yet and the total number of active cases stand at 12, with a cumulative of 23 cases having been detected (with 11 patient discharges) since the start of year.
Faridabad has six active cases, with one new infection and five recoveries reported on Sunday. The tally of active coronavirus cases in Faridabad reached 16 on Saturday, while that for Gurgaon was 12, after seven patients recovered in May.
On May 31, 94 samples were tested, and three positive cases had been detected in Gurgaon on Saturday. With the symptoms being mild and all patients under home isolation, no deaths due to the coronavirus have been reported so far in Haryana, health officers had said.
The health department had earlier stated that the situation was under control and that there was no cause for worry with the rise in mild symptomatic Covid cases.
'All the pandemic-era precautionary measures and advisories, including mask-wearing, have been reissued and reiterated to hospitals. For now, we have made available 500 beds across isolation wards in government hospitals and other sites for any rise in serious cases. We will increase the number if and when the need arises. We have told hospitals to carry out tests for those showing symptoms. There is no reason to panic, the situation is well under control,' Dr Alka Singh, Chief Medical Officer, Gurgaon, told The Indian Express last month.
'There is no need to panic. It is an endemic (disease) now. Many people with symptoms are likely to test positive,' Dr Singh added.
Following a recent spike in Covid cases in Southeast Asia, India too has seen fresh cases, with a majority of them being reported from Kerala, Maharashtra, Gujarat, and Tamil Nadu. However, most of the cases are mild and not associated with severity or mortality.
Around the time the second wave of Covid peaked in India, the Haryana government launched a door-to-door screening programme in rural areas across the state on May 15, 2021. Till June 3 of that year, over 1.66 crore people were screened, which was roughly around 60 per cent of the state's 2.91 crore population.
In May of that year, the transmission rate of the disease had been found rapidly increasing in rural areas. A survey conducted by the state's health department on Covid patients admitted in various hospitals revealed that 68 per cent were from urban areas, while 32 per cent of the patients were from rural areas.
During the second wave, Haryana had imposed a one-week lockdown on May 3, which was extended multiple times. However, as fresh cases continued to dip, the state government gradually relaxed various curbs.