Shimla: Coronavirus has affected every state of the country. In the meantime, talking about Himachal Pradesh, then a driver in the CM house in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh has turned out to be COVID-19 positive. It has been infected by the recent arrival of positive security personnel in contact. District Monitoring Officer Dr. Rakesh Bhardwaj has confirmed this. According to the information, the infected driver is a resident of Sundernagar, and when a driver in the Secretariat is on leave, he drives a vehicle deployed under the Chief Minister's security.
A positive case has come in Mangalwa of Chamba city. Here a 27-year-old woman has become positive due to contact with a person who has been infected before. The number of active cases in the city has been 98. So far 197 patients have become healthy. The total number of infected in the state has reached 4208. There are 1314 active cases. 2835 patients have recovered. 17 have died due to coronavirus. 40 have gone outside the infected state. There is a continuous increase in the cases of corona in the state.
On the other hand, less than 60 thousand coronavirus cases have been reported in the country for the second consecutive day and during this time around 9 lakh sample tests have been done. According to the latest data released by the Health Ministry, 55 thousand 079 cases have been reported in the last 24 hours and 876 people have died. During this, 8 lakh 99 thousand 864 sample tests were conducted. According to the Health Ministry, 27 lakh two thousand 743 cases of corona have been reported so far in the country. Out of these, 8 lakh 73 thousand 166 are active cases. 19 lakh 77 thousand 780 patients have been cured and 51 thousand 797 people have died. The recovery rate is 73.18 percent and the death rate is 1.92 percent.
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