NE NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, AUG 15
Gujarat reported 1,094 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, 234 of them in Surat, which took the state”s tally to 77,663, the health department said.
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With 19 patients succumbing to COVID-19, the death toll in the state rose to 2,767, it said.
The number of recovered patients rose to 60,537 with 1,015 patients getting discharged from hospitals during the day, the department said in its release.
With this, the state’s recovery rate stands at 77.95 percent, it said.
Surat district reported the highest 234 new coronavirus patients, Ahmedabad reported 162, followed by Vadodara with 107 new cases.
Rajkot district reported 95 new patients, Jamnagar 56, Panchmahal 43, Morbi 39, Bhavnagar 34, Amreli 30, Kutch 29, Bharuch 24, Gir Somnath 20, Dahod 17, Mehsana, Patan and Surendranagar 16 each, Kheda 15, Banaskantha and Navsari 11 each.
Out of 19 fatalities reported on Saturday, Surat accounted for nine, Ahmedabad three, Vadodara two, and Gir Somnath, Junagadh, Mehsana, Morbi, and Rajkot one each.
51,217 samples were tested in the state in the last 24 hours at the rate of 787.95 tests per day per million, the health department said.
A total of 12,62,264 samples have been tested for COVID-19 in Gujarat so far, it said.
There are 14,359 active cases in the state, out of which the condition of 76 patients is critical, the health department said.
Gujarat coronavirus figures are as follows: Total cases 77,663, new cases 1,094, deaths 2,767, discharged 60,537, active cases 14,359 and people tested so far 12,62,264.
162 new coronavirus cases in Ahmedabad; 3 deaths, 188 recover
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The number of COVID-19 cases in Ahmedabad district rose by 162 to 28,840 on Saturday, Gujarat health department said.
The fatality count rose by three to 1,655, it said.
188 more patients recovered from the viral infection, increasing the number of recovered cases to 23,708, the department said in its release.
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Ahmedabad city reported 148 new cases while the rural parts reported 14 new cases.
All three deaths were reported in the city area.
Since July 27, Ahmedabad city has been reporting less than 150 new cases per day.
At 3, the death toll in the day was one of the lowest since the fatality count dropped to a single digit from July 4.
Ahmedabad city has so far reported 27,337 cases while 1,503 cases have been reported from rural parts of the district.
