A first in 2.5 months: Gurgaon takes two weeks to add 1,000 cases

Gurgaon: The city on Thursday reported 78 fresh Covid-19 cases to cross the 10,000 mark, the second district in the state to do so after Faridabad. Its case load now stands at 10,016.
Significantly, this is the first time that the city has taken more than two weeks to report a batch of 1,000 cases since it first breached the 1,000 mark on March 16.
Gurgaon took 76 days to report its first 1,000 cases, but just another eight to cross the 2,000 mark.It took five days to cross 3,000 cases and another six to cross the 4,000 mark.
Thereafter, till it breached the 9,000-mark on July 31, it took eight or nine days to cross each set of 1,000 cases. From 9,000 to 10,000, the city took longer — a full two weeks.
However, though the city’s growth rate at 0.98% is less than the state’s 2%, the number of deaths reported in each 1,000 new cases hasn’t seen a significant difference. Nine deaths were reported when the cases went from 7,000 to 8,000, five deaths when cases crossed 9,000, and five more when cases went past 10,000.
“Our present growth rate is 0.98% and recovery rate is at 91.94%. We have conducted 91,862 tests per million. The positivity rate is 7.14% and the doubling rate is 103.06 days,” said Gurgaon chief medical officer Virender Yadav.
After the city witnessed a spike in early June, it has been recording fewer cases of late, with not a single day with 200-plus cases in July and August. The last 16 days, especially, saw the lowest daily additions.
Meanwhile, 45 people recovered from Covid-19 on Thursday, taking the total number of recoveries to 9,182. However, one person succumbed to the infection too.
“Till now, 128 people have died of Covid-19, of whom 90 had comorbidities,” said a health official.
According to official data,1,36,712 people have been put under surveillance in the district. Samples of 1,30,878 people have been sent for testing, of which 1,19,059 returned negative, while the results of 409 are still awaited.
On Thursday, 17 people were put under government quarantine. The district has 706 active cases, of which 577 are in home isolation. The health authorities collected 1,803 samples in the past 24 hours for antigen and RT-PCR tests.