Haryana deputy chief minister Dushyant Chautala on Tuesday said he has tested positive for coronavirus, adding that he was asymptomatic and feeling alright.
Chautala, a JJP leader, urged people who had met him during the past week to get themselves tested.
“My Covid-19 test report has returned positive. There are no symptoms like fever, but as the report is positive, I am self-isolating,” he said in a message on Twitter.
Earlier, chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar, some ministers, assembly speaker Gian Chand Gupta and a few legislators and MPs from the state had also contracted the infection and later recovered.
Haryana, meanwhile, collected samples of 38,983 people in last 24 hours during which, 18 people succumbed to the viral disease and 1,206 new infections were recorded, as per the medical bulletin. The doubling rate improved from 33 on Monday to 34 on Tuesday, while the recovery rate also improved from 90.13% to 90.57%.
The death toll in the state reached 1,509, while the tally of cumulative positive cases stood at 1,36,115. The bulletin said 1,690 more patients have been cured, taking the overall recoveries to 1,23,286.
Four people each succumbed in Hisar and Yamunanagar, two each in Gurugram, Panipat and Sonepat, and one each in Jind, Kaithal, Fatehabad and Sirsa. The number of active cases case came down to 11,320.
{{/usCountry}}Four people each succumbed in Hisar and Yamunanagar, two each in Gurugram, Panipat and Sonepat, and one each in Jind, Kaithal, Fatehabad and Sirsa. The number of active cases case came down to 11,320.
{{/usCountry}}Gurugram again recorded the maximum new cases (266), while Faridabad logged 148 infections, Hisar 96, Rohtak and Kurukshetra 84 each, Ambala 57, Panchkula 53, Nuh 51, Karnal 50, Rewari 45, Mahendergarh 37, Sirsa and Sonepat 33 each, Panipat, Bhiwani and Palwal 32 each, Jhajjar 23, Yamunanagar 19, Charkhi Dadri 17, and Kaithal 14.