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AHMEDABAD, NOV 14
Gujarat recorded 1,124 new coronavirus infections on Saturday, taking the total number of cases in the state to 1,87,240, the health department said.
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With the death of six COVID-19 patients, including two in Ahmedabad and one each in Amreli, Banaskantha, Gandhinagar, and Surat, the number of fatalities in the state rose to 3,797, it said.
At the same time, 995 patients were discharged from hospitals on Saturday, raising the tally of recovered cases to 1,70,931.
This took the recovery rate to 91.29 percent, said the department in its release.
As many as 52,973 coronavirus tests were conducted in Gujarat over the last 24 hours, at the rate of 814.97 tests per day per million population. The total number of samples tested is 67,87,440.
At 215, Ahmedabad reported the highest number of new cases in the state in the day, followed by Surat with 185 cases.
Rajkot reported 144 new infections while 135 patients were detected in Vadodara, the health department said in the department.
Among other districts, Banaskantha reported 60 new cases, Mehsana 55, Gandhinagar 50, Surendranagar 33, Patan 30, Jamnagar 23, Sabarkantha 22, Kheda 19, Morbi 17, Panchmahal 15, Amreli 14, Junagadh 13, etc.
In the Union Territory of Daman, Diu, and Dadra, and Nagar Haveli, the COVID-19 tally rose to 3,259 with four new cases, while the number of recoveries mounted to 3,232 with three patients getting discharged in the day, officials said.
The number of active cases in the UT stands at 22.
Gujarat COVID-19 figures are as follows: Positive cases 1,87,240, new cases 1,124, deaths 3,797, discharged 1,70,931, active cases 12,512 and people tested so far 67,87,440.
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215 new cases in Ahmedabad district, two deaths
Ahmedabad reported 215 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, the highest in Gujarat, raising the district’s case count to 45,124, the state health department said.
With two deaths, the COVID-19 death toll in the district rose to 1,949, it said.
As many as 195 patients were discharged from various hospitals on Saturday, increasing the total of recovered cases in the district to 39,832.
Ahmedabad city reported 198 cases and the rural areas 17 cases on Saturday.
The city”s north-west zone has the highest number of 477 active cases, followed by the south zone with 458 cases and the west zone with 443 cases.
Among the city’s seven zones, the central zone has the lowest 280 active cases, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation said.
The number of `micro-containment” areas in the city now stands at 90, with the removal of four and addition of three such areas, the AMC said.
With the daily spike in cases crossing the 200-mark over the last few days, the bed occupancy in private hospitals in the city has risen to 86.7 percent, said the Ahmedabad Hospitals and Nursing Homes Association.
Against 2,195 beds made available across 71 private hospitals in the city requisitioned by the AMC, 1,903 were occupied as of Saturday morning, it said.
In the isolation wards of these hospitals, 717 beds are occupied and 120 available, it said. In ICUs with the ventilator, 143 beds are occupied and 27 available.
185 new coronavirus cases in Surat district
Surat district reported 185 new coronavirus cases and one death on Saturday, the Gujarat health department said.
The tally of infections in the district thus rose to 38,472, it said.
One COVID-19 patient died, taking the death toll in the district to 1,036.
Recovered cases outnumbered new cases in Surat on Saturday in both the city and rural areas.
In the city, against 143 new cases, 149 patients recovered. In rural areas, against 42 new cases, 51 patients recovered.
With a total of 27,280 patients getting discharged so far in the city, the COVID-19 recovery rate rose to 94.3 percent, said the Surat Municipal Corporation.
The city’s Athwa locality reported 30 new cases, the highest among its eight zones, raising its total cases to 5,483. Katargam comes second with a total of 4,875 cases.
As many as 14,383 people are quarantined in the city.
The number of patients admitted in various city hospitals is 330, including 157 who are admitted in two government hospitals, said the SMC.
Bed occupancy in the two government hospitals – civil hospital and SMIMER – is 4.36 percent and 7.31 percent, respectively, it said.
In rural Surat, the total number of COVID-19 cases in Kamrej tehsil rose to 2,133, the highest among nine tehsils, with eight new cases.
Kamrej has also reported 89 COVID-19 deaths so far, the highest among tehsils, officials said.
