On Sunday, for the ninth consecutive day, the district reported lower than 100 new instances of Covid-19.
With 80 new optimistic instances being detected on Sunday, Gurugram’s complete tally of reported infections now stands at 9,714 instances, of which simply seven p.c ( 663 sufferers) are categorized as ‘energetic’. That is down from 883 sufferers per week in the past, on August 2. At the moment, Gurugram’s complete reported infections stood at 9,245, indicating a mean development of 67 instances per day for the previous seven days
Well being division officers confirmed that knowledge now signifies a continued slowdown in new infections. Between July 26 and August 2, the district noticed a mean of 90 new instances of Covid-19 each day.
“Week on week, we’re seeing the expansion charge come down. It’s at present underneath one p.c,” stated Dr Jai Prakash Sharma, the Built-in Illness Surveillance Programme’s (IDSP) district surveillance officer (DSO) in Gurugram.
State well being division knowledge present the district’s day by day development charge to be 0.7 p.c, which is the bottom in Haryana. Knowledge additionally reveals Gurugram to be considered one of simply two districts within the state with a development charge underneath one p.c (the opposite being Jind, which is including new Covid-19 instances at a day by day development charge of 0.9 p.c).
Gurugram’s day by day test-posivity charge — or ratio of latest positives to new samples examined — stood at 3.5 p.c on Sunday, which is inside the World Well being Organisation’s beneficial positivity charge of 5 p.c or much less. “We’ve got sustained a TPR of under 5 p.c for over two weeks now,” Sharma stated.
The WHO’s advice for lifting curbs on public mobility is a day by day TPR of 5 p.c or much less, over a interval of not less than two weeks. Well being division officers stated that, over the previous week, Gurugram’s TPR has been constantly recorded under 5 p.c, and that it will doubtless stay thereabouts in coming days.
Of the present tally of 663 energetic sufferers, 65 are hospitalised, whereas a majority (523 folks) are underneath residence isolation. That is down from 685 folks underneath residence isolation per week in the past. One other 73 sufferers (down from 109 on August 2) are underneath remark on the district covid centre centres). Up to now week, Gurugram diminished its burden of energetic sufferers by near 24 p.c.
Gurugram on Sunday additionally recorded 100 new recoveries (down from 114 the day before today), taking the district’s cumulative restoration charge to 91 p.c (from 89 p.c per week in the past). Sunday marked the ninth straight day when day by day recoveries exceeded new optimistic instances.
The district recorded no new deaths on Sunday. The mortality charge within the district, up to now, is 1.2 p.c (down from 1.34 p.c per week in the past), with 125 fatalities.
Gurugram on Sunday additionally collected 2007 new samples for testing, down from 2314 samples collected on Saturday. Of those, 338 samples had been taken by personal labs for RT-PCR exams, whereas nearly all of remaining samples are these of RT-PCR and antigen exams by the well being division.
The doubling-rate stands at 84 days (up from 74 days per week in the past), whereas energetic instances make up solely seven p.c of the reported case load (down from 9.5 p.c per week in the past).