Noida sees 727 new Covid cases, 2 more deaths

NOIDA: Gautam Budh Nagar’s Covid active caseload mounted to 5,201 with 727 new infections reported in the past 24 hours, while two more fatalities pushed the toll to 473.
On Wednesday, an 11-year-old girl died during her treatment at The Post Graduate Institute of Child Health. The child, who was also suffering from tuberculosis and meningitis, had tested positive for the disease on January 20.
Another 74-year-old man, who was undergoing treatment at a private facility since January 18, also succumbed on the day.
The patient, health officials said, had developed perforations in the intestine and had also tested positive for Covid but died due to health complications.
On Tuesday, a 20-year-old woman had succumbed to the viral disease in the district. Ten people have died due to Covid in GB Nagar in January alone.
Ghaziabad, which reported two Covid-related fatalities on Tuesday, has seen a total of 469 deaths due to the disease since the outbreak of the pandemic. On Wednesday, a 61-year-old Nandgram resident, who was admitted at Santosh Medical College on January 20 with a complaint of breathlessness and chest pain and had subsequently tested positive for Covid, succumbed to the disease.
District health officials said the patient also had a history of cardiac disease, hypertension and diabetes, but was fully vaccinated.
Meanwhile, the district added 527 new cases on the day with the sample positivity rate slipping to 6.54% from Tuesday’s 10.78% when 820 cases were reported. In Ghaziabad, close to 8,000 people were tested for Covid, while neighbouring GB Nagar tested only 727, a bulletin released by the district health department said.
In Ghaziabad, which has 3,651 active cases, at least 41 patients are being treated at hospitals.
At least 10,513 people were vaccinated in the last 24 hours in Ghaziabad while only 472 doses were given in the neighbouring district.