SHIMLA: During the third wave of Covid-19, Himachal Pradesh has so far reported 186 deaths. Bilaspur, Chamba, Kinnaur, Kullu and Sirmaur districts reported less than 10 deaths due to Covid while the maximum number of 51 deaths were reported from Kangra district, followed by 43 deaths from Shimla district, 26 deaths from Mandi district and 19 deaths form Solan district.
The maximum number of 12 deaths in a day were reported on February 3.
An official of health department said that third wave of Covid-19 in Himachal Pradesh commenced from the last week of December last year. The number of positive cases increased from 12 on December 26 to 762 as on February 8. In a span of 45 days, the state witnessed a total number of 49,456 positive cases of Covid.
He said that the reason for such high positivity in the State was the highly infectious nature of the new variant of concern of Covid virus. He that of the total 186 deaths that occurred during a span of 45 days, 67 Covid positive persons who died were not vaccinated with any dose of Covid vaccine. Of the total 186 deaths, 130 were males.
