NE NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, NOV 24
Gujarat’s COVID-19 tally crossed the 2-lakh mark and rose to 2,00,409 with the addition of 1,510 new cases, the second highest single-day count so far, on Tuesday, the state health department said.
સોલા સિવિલથી : કોરોનાની ટ્રાયલ વેક્સિનનું સોલા સિવિલમાં આગમન, પરમ દિવસથી 1 હજાર વોલેન્ટિયર્સ પર પરીક્ષણ શરૂ#Ahmedabad #Gujarat #SolaCivilHospital #CovidVaccine pic.twitter.com/iGWc8zvG60
— Dr. Kirit P. Solanki (Modi Ka Parivar) (@drkiritpsolanki) November 24, 2020
Good News .
Vaccine has arrived at Ahmedabad . pic.twitter.com/DWeUaMWSkA— Dr. Kirit P. Solanki (Modi Ka Parivar) (@drkiritpsolanki) November 24, 2020
This is the second time in three days that the state has reported over 1,500 new cases in a day. Also, 1,510 is the second-highest daily count recorded since the outbreak of the viral infection in March.
Gujarat also reported the death of 16 more COVID-19 patients, taking the number of fatalities to 3,892, the department said in a release.
At the same time, 1,286 patients were discharged from various hospitals, pushing the number of recovered cases in the state to 1,82,473, it said.
The state’s recovery rate now stands at 91.05 percent, the release said.
Ahmedabad, which has seen a recent surge in new cases, reported 347 infections, the highest for a district in the state, followed by Surat (286), Vadodara (181), and Rajkot (128), it said.
Ahmedabad also reported the highest number of 12 deaths, out of the total 16, while Surat reported three fatalities and Botad one.
Among other districts, Gandhinagar reported 74 new cases, Banaskantha 47, Patan 46, Mehsana 43, Jamnagar 39, Kheda 32, Panchmahal 26, Narmada 24, Amreli 23, Bharuch and Mahisagar 21 each, Anand and Dahod 19 each, Junagadh and Bhavnagar 18 each, Sabarkantha 17, Morbi 16 and Surendranagar 13.
The number of active cases stood at 14,044 with as many as 94 patients being on ventilators, the department said.
Amid a spike in cases, the state government has ramped up COVID-19 testing with as many as 84,625 samples examined in the last 24 hours at a rate of 1,301.92 tests per day per million population, the release said.
With this, a total of 73,89,330 samples have been tested so far.
In the Union Territory of Daman, Diu and Dadra, and Nagar Haveli, the COVID-19 tally remained unchanged at 3,297 with no new cases reported on Tuesday, health officials said.
With three recoveries, the number of such cases in the UT rose to 3,258, they said.
Gujarat COVID-19 figures are positive cases 2,00,409, new cases 1,510, deaths 3,892, discharged 1,82,473, active cases 14,044 and people tested so far 73,89,330.
PM Shri @narendramodi interacted with CM Shri @vijayrupanibjp and 7 other CMs of the states witnessing a sudden surge in COVID-19 cases post Diwali to review the situation and discuss the measures necessary to control the spread of Corona virus via video conferencing today. pic.twitter.com/w4AP0QWu85
— CMO Gujarat (@CMOGuj) November 24, 2020
Ahmedabad sees 347 COVID-19 cases, 12 deaths; 362 discharged
Ahmedabad recorded 347 COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, the highest for any district in Gujarat, taking its tally to 48,000, while 12 people died and 362 people recovered during the day, an official said.
The toll in the district is now 1,993, while the number of people discharged so far stood at 42,693, he added.
Ahmedabad city accounted for 336 of the people discharged and 323 of the new cases reported, while these figures were 26 and 24 respectively for the district’s rural parts.
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation said 156 private hospital beds were added for COVID-19 treatment, while COVID care centres, which are meant for patients who do not have isolation facilities at their homes, or for elderly patients who require hospital supervision, got an additional 378 beds.
With the city witnessing a surge in COVID-19 cases over the past few days, several residential societies in the city, from those having 100 residents to one with over 1,500, have been declared micro containment areas, officials said.
The number of such micro containment areas has risen to 203 after the AMC added 45 areas and removed four, they said.
In another move to decrease crowding and contain the recent spike, the AMC on Tuesday restricted entry to city gardens to four hours per day, from 7 am-9 am and 5 pm-7 pm.
Ahmedabad Mayor Bijal Patel announced the cancellation of Kankaria Carnival, an annual event organised around the redeveloped Kankaria lake here, because of the outbreak.
Rural Ahmedabad now has 3,395 cases, with 24 being detected on Tuesday, while 3,308 people, including 26 during the day, have been discharged, leaving it with a recovery rate of 97 percent, officials said.
Surat: Test numbers rise, 286 COVID-19 cases detected
Surat reported 286 COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, taking its tally to 40,773, while two people died and 228 people were discharged during the day, an official said.
Surat city accounted for 219 of the new cases and 187 of the people discharged, taking the overall count of the latter to 28,937, giving it a recovery rate of 93.93 percent, the official said.
The rural part of the district reported 67 new cases and 41 recoveries, he added.
“In Surat city limits, 13,952 persons are quarantined, and 499 hospitalised,” he said.
Officials said testing numbers had risen to 17,038 on November 23 from 10,500 on November 20, one of the reasons why the city was reporting a larger number of cases over the past few days.
“Over 1.28 lakh tests were conducted between November 11 and 23, which led to the detection of 2,220 new cases. A total of 1,18,761 rapid antigen tests and 7,670 RT-PCR tests were conducted during this period,” the Surat Municipal Corporation said.
Covaxin shots reach Sola hospital for phase-3 trials, says official
A consignment of Covaxin, one of the COVID-19 vaccine candidates, reached Sola civil hospital here in Gujarat on Tuesday for the phase-III clinical trials, a senior official said.
The Sola civil hospital is one of the 130 centres across the country where the third phase of clinical trials of Covaxin would be conducted, said HG Koshia, Commissioner, Gujarat Food and Drug Control Administration (FDCA).
“Covaxin is being developed indigenously by vaccine maker Bharat Biotech in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR),” Koshia told reporters.
While authorities at the civil hospital remain tight-lipped, Ahmedabad-West MP Kirit Solanki tweeted a photo of the “Covaxin trial room” at the hospital.
“Corona”s trial vaccine has arrived at Sola Civil. Trial will commence on 1,000 volunteers starting Friday. Sola Civil has formed a team to check the effects of the vaccine. The hospital has also formed one Ethical Committee and a Scientific Committee for supervision of trials,” Solanki tweeted.
