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Gurgaon: The city on Tuesday reported 998 Covid-19 cases and one Covid-related death, taking the total case tally to 72,271 and the number of deaths due to the infection to 370, as per the health department data.
There was no reduction in the positivity rate from Monday, as it continued to remain at 10%
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Gurgaon: The city on Tuesday reported 998 Covid-19 cases and one Covid-related death, taking the total case tally to 72,271 and the number of deaths due to the infection to 370, as per the health department data.
There was no reduction in the positivity rate from Monday, as it continued to remain at 10%
Officials of the health department said that they recommended more areas to be listed as containment zones, which will increase the number of such zones from 61 to 94.
The case spike on Tuesday took the total number of active cases in the district to 6,460, of whom 6,018 are in isolation.
Dr Virender Yadav, the chief medical officer said that cases are on the rise in specific areas, due to which they have recommended an increase in containment zones to isolate the cases.
According to the health department data, 714 patients recovered on Tuesday, while 9,013 samples were collected for Covid-19 testing.
Till date, the department has collected 1,031,175 samples for testing across the district.
Health department officials said that 15,060 people were vaccinated on Tuesday at 220 session sites.
Till date, the department has vaccinated 275,000 people in the city, which is almost 55% of the eligible beneficiaries.
Yadav also said that the department managed to achieve 175% of the targets set for the ‘tika utsav’ that commenced on April 11.