As the district struggles with an explosion of novel coronavirus cases, the city’s situation became grimmer ahead of the Holi festival. On Friday the district witnessed 4,095 positive cases which are the highest number of COVID-19 cases in a single day this year. The district further recorded 35 deaths of which 18 are registered from the city while 14 were reported from the rural areas.
With these additional counts, the cumulative of positive cases reached 2,11,162 and the total count of deaths so far is 4,819. From the total positive cases, 2966 were reported from the city and 1126 are from the rural area.
On Friday 1,943 are recovered taking the cumulative recovery to 1,69,407. The recovery rate after today’s count is 80.23 percent. The total active cases in the district now stand at 3,69,36.
Today’s 4095 positive cases were reported from various hospitals.
AIIMS (327), GMC (875), IGGMC (385), NEERI (102), RTMNU (364) Private Lab (1854) and Antigen (143).
