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Chhattisgarh recorded 86 new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, biggest single-day spike

Hindustan Times, Raipur | ByRitesh Mishra | Edited by Sparshita Saxena
Jun 04, 2020 02:53 PM IST

“The new cases included a government doctor posted in Janjgir Champa district of the state,” the state bulletin stated

Chhattisgarh recorded a total of 86 new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday which is the biggest spike in a single day in the state ever since the first case was detected on March 18.

The state health department released a Covid-19 bulletin on Thursday morning claiming that 52 new Covid-19 cases were detected on Wednesday late night and that the total tally of Covid-19 cases has jumped to 680 in the state.

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“The new cases included a government doctor posted in Janjgir Champa district of the state,” the bulletin stated.

The health officials further said that out of these new cases, 20 were reported from Janjgir-Champa district, 12 from Mahasamund, six from Jashpur, four from Baloda Bazar, three from Balod, two each case from Durg, Rajnandgaon and Raipur districts while one case came from Raigarh.

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“Many of these cases are of migrant labourers who have returned to the state in last few days while some cases were of students who came from Delhi,” said a senior health officer.

As per the bulletin, a total of 19 patients were discharged from different Covid-19 hospitals and medical college hospitals of the state.

Till now, Chhattisgarh has reported 2 deaths due to the coronavirus pandemic. On Tuesday, a 55-year-old woman hailing from Durg district tested positive for Covid-19 after her death at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Raipur.

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