HP Registers 7 New Covid Cases
Dharamshala, Oct 21 Ashok Raina
Himachal Pradesh on Friday reported seven new Covid-19 cases and zero deaths, a health official said. With the number of fresh Covid-19 cases in the state detected and at least 7 fresh cases tested positive on Friday for the lethal novel Cornelius in one day, in Himachal Pradesh pushing the Himachal Pradesh state caseload to 312420. Among the fresh cases, 2 each are from the Kangra and Bilaspur districts of Himachal Pradesh. The spokesman of the Health Department told that all the 7 fresh cases who have tested positive today have been isolated as per the protocol. The spokesman said that today there was no Covid death reported from any part of this hill state thus the death toll remained stagnant at 4190. He said that the number of active cases has further gone down to 53 on Friday which included 14 from Kangra, 5 each from Kullu and Solan, 12 from Bilaspur, 6 from Sirmour, 4 from Mandi and the remaining 7 cases from other districts of this hill state. The sources told UNI that there were 14 recoveries today in the state, thus keeping the number of recovered patients at 308146 today. He said that there were 781 samples collected today. He said that today one person was admitted to a hospital in this hill state however the number of active admissions has remained at 3 and one Covid 19 patient was discharged today after getting cured from one of the hospitals of the state.