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GANDHINAGAR, APRIL 24
The number of coronavirus positive patients in Gujarat rose to 2,815 on Friday after 191 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours while the Centre said the situation is especially serious in major or emerging hotspot areas, including Ahmedabad, Surat, Hyderabad, and Chennai.
CM Shri @vijayrupanibjp makes an important decision to consider all the contributions made by the PSUs and other industries to the Gujarat State Disaster Mngt Authority (GSDMA) to back the efforts of the State Govt towards combating COVID-19 outbreak as CSR expenditure. pic.twitter.com/e9YwqlRvW7
— CMO Gujarat (@CMOGuj) April 23, 2020
Fifteen patients succumbed to the infection in the state during the same period, which took the death toll in the state to 127, state health department officials said.
“While 14 of them died in Ahmedabad, one succumbed in Surat,” Principal Secretary (Health) Jayanti Ravi said.
પ્રધાનમંત્રી ગરીબ કલ્યાણ અન્ન યોજના હેઠળ તા.25 થી 29 એપ્રિલ દરમ્યાન રાજ્યના 68.80 લાખ ગરીબ પરિવારોના 3.40 કરોડ લોકોને વ્યક્તિદીઠ 3.5 કિ.ગ્રા. ઘઉં અને 1.5 કિ.ગ્રા. ચોખા સહિત કુલ 5 કિ.ગ્રા. વધારાના અનાજનું વિતરણ કરવામાં આવશે. pic.twitter.com/iqfTEeaQmc
— CMO Gujarat (@CMOGuj) April 24, 2020
Out of the 191 positive cases reported in the past 24 hours, 169 were found in Ahmedabad alone, followed by Surat (six), Vadodara (five), Anand and Panchmahal three each, Bhavnagar two and Gandhinagar, Botad and Valsad district one each, she told reporters in Gandhinagar.
Gujarat COVID-19 figures are as follows: Positive cases 2,815, new cases 191, deaths 127, discharged 265, active cases 2,423, and people tested so far 43,822.
Seventeen SRP jawans were among the positive cases reported on Friday.
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Ahmedabad may have 8 lakh coronavirus cases by end of May: Official
The number of COVID-19 patients in Ahmedabad city of Gujarat may grow to eight lakh by the end of May if the current four-day period of doubling of such cases continues, an official said on Friday.
So far, Ahmedabad city has reported 1,638 coronavirus positive cases, the highest in Gujarat.
ખાનપુર તાલુકાના પાડોશી જિલ્લા અરવલ્લી બોર્ડરના ગામોની મુલાકાત લેતા જિલ્લા કલેકટર શ્રી આર.બી.બારડ @collectormahi @DDOMAHISAGAR @InfoGujarat @CMahisagar pic.twitter.com/CSCu2pSgZ8
— Info Mahisagar GoG (@mahimahiti) April 24, 2020
Of these, 1,459 cases are active after the death of 75 patients and recovery of 105 others, Ahmedabad Municipal Commissioner Vijay Nehra said in a video message.
“At present, the rate of doubling of cases in Ahmedabad is four days, which means that cases double every four days. If this rate continues, we will have 50,000 cases by May 15 and around 8 lakh by May 31,” Nehra said.
કોરોના વાઇરસ COVID-19ને કારણે લોકડાઉન અમલી બનાવવામાં આવ્યું છે. શાળા કોલેજોમાં શિક્ષણકાર્ય બંધ હોવા છતા પણ છોટાઉદેપુર જિલ્લામાં પોટિયા પ્રાથમિક શાળાના આચાર્ય દ્વારા બાળકોને વિડીયો કોન્ફરન્સિંગના માધ્યમથી શિક્ષણ આપી રહ્યા છે. pic.twitter.com/YYYl7Hhpuv
— Gujarat Information (@InfoGujarat) April 24, 2020
“Our target is to bring down this rate to eight days. This will be a very difficult task because very few countries have achieved it,” he said.
He added that the US and Europe currently have four days of doubling rate and only South Korea has achieved the eight-day rate.
પોરબંદરના ૫૦ માજી સૈનિકોની છે કે જે કોરોનાની મહામારીના લોક ડાઉનલોડમા પોતાની નિવૃત્તિ પછીની આજીવિકાની નોકરી કરી બાકીનો સમય પરિવારના બદલે પોલીસની સાથે રહીને જનતાની સેવામાં સમર્પિત કરે છે. pic.twitter.com/1SIY8bfham
— Gujarat Information (@InfoGujarat) April 24, 2020
“If we can slow down the doubling rate to eight days, our cases will be only 10,000 by May 15 instead of 50,000. Similarly, the cases will be just 50,000 by May 31 instead of the estimated eight lakh. The way Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation is taking steps, we are confident of achieving this with the help of people’s cooperation,” said Nehra.
He stressed that the doubling rate must be brought down before the lockdown comes to an end on May 3.
Meanwhile, 70 AMC staffers, including 18 doctors, 10 paramedical staff, have tested corona positive on Friday.
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CM orders COVID-19 test for pregnant women in cluster containment campus
Chief Minister Vijay Rupani has taken an important decision for the well-being of pregnant women in the state, said Dr. Jayanti Ravi , Principal Secretary of the Health Department.
According to Ravi, “The sensitive Chief Minister has instructed the Health Department to ensure that pregnant women living in cluster containment areas as well as those in labour camps and those who have been shifted from hotspots centres experiencing labour pains or are about to give birth in next five days shall be tested for COVID-19 even if they don’t show any symptoms of the virus.”
#વાત્રક_ડેમની અંદર આવેલ #મગોડી બેટ વિસ્તારમાં આવેલ #દેશી_દારૂના ભઠ્ઠીઓ પર #મોટરબોટ દ્વારા જઈ #રેડ કરી અંદાજિત ૧૦૦૦ લિટર વોશ નો નાશ કરતી…#માલપુર પોલીસ. …..@CollectorArvali @DdoArvalli pic.twitter.com/9pYNXVQOAK
— SP Arvalli (@SP_Arvalli) April 23, 2020
Gandhinagar Govt Medical College lab gets ICMR nod
She added that such tests would be conducted as per the guidelines of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). Ravi also said that the state started with conducting 100 tests per day in the beginning of April whereas now it conducts 2,963 tests per day as of April 23. Around 100 samples from each district of the state have been tested in a single day as a part of the CM’s strategy to cover the citizens of every district to curb the spread of corona. This make it to 4,218 tests in a day. 19 laboratories, including 15 government and 4 private laboratories are working with a total capacity of 3,000 tests every day for conducting such tests. These laboratories provide test results within a day. She informed that the Indian Council of Medical Research has given approval to start one more lab at Gandhinagar Government Medical College.
Dr. Jayanti Ravi also said , “Rapid anti-body test kits are being used in 30 districts of Gujarat. These kits enable the health state to quickly detect people with early symptoms of the virus. 24,000 kits have been provided to Gujarat by the Government of India.”
Three trainee soldier craftsmen test positive for coronavirus
Three soldier craftsmen undergoing training at the Military Station in Vadodara have tested positive for coronavirus, officials said on Friday.
This is the first instance in Gujarat wherein members of armed forces have been infected with coronavirus, which has claimed over 100 lives in the state so far.
These trainee soldiers were admitted to government-run SSG Hospital in Vadodara, over 100km from here, on April 22 after their medical reports came positive for COVID-19, said a statement issued by Defence PRO for Gujarat, Puneet Chadha.
“Three soldier craftsmen undergoing training at the Military Station in Baroda (Vadodara) tested COVID-19 positive on April 22.
“All protocols were followed and necessary actions taken by the Army authorities. All three jawans have been admitted to SSG Hospital,” the statement said, adding that the military station premises was sanitised by the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) after these cases emerged.
As many as 40 persons, who came in contact with these jawans, have been home quarantined as a precautionary measure.
According to the VMC officials, these trainee soldiers are from Madhya Pradesh and came to Vadodara for training well before the lockdown was imposed last month.
Vadodara Municipal Commissioner N B Upadhyay refuted the theory that the soldiers contracted the infection at a nearby ATM centre.
“We find no credence in that theory. If the ATM was the culprit, then we would have received many more cases, which is not the case at present,” Upadhyay said.
Forty persons, who came in their contact in and outside the military station, have been put under home quarantine, he added.
COVID-19 situation especially serious in Ahmedabad, Surat, Hyderabad, Chennai: MHA
The Centre on Friday said the COVID-19 situation is especially serious in major or emerging hotspot areas including Ahmedabad, Surat, Hyderabad, and Chennai.
In a statement, the Home Ministry said that violations of lockdown measures reported in some parts of the country pose a serious health hazard to the public and may lead to the spread of COVID-19.
“The situation is especially serious in major hotspot districts or emerging hotspots like Ahmedabad and Surat (Gujarat), Thane (Maharashtra), Hyderabad (Telangana), and Chennai (Tamil Nadu),” the statement said.
The central government has already constituted 10 Interministerial Central Teams (IMCTs) for the spot assessment of the COVID-19 hotspot districts in the country.
Five of these teams are on inspection in Ahmedabad, Surat (both Gujarat), Thane (Maharashtra), Hyderabad (Telangana), and Chennai (Tamil Nadu).
The teams constituted earlier are in Mumbai, Pune (Maharashtra), Indore (Madhya Pradesh), Jaipur (Rajasthan) and West Bengal (one team for Kolkata and adjoining districts and the other for North Bengal).
The Home Ministry said that in some of the districts in the country, several violations of the lockdown measures have been reported, posing a serious health hazard and risk for spread of COVID-19, which is against the general interest of the public.
“These violations include incidents ranging from violence on frontline healthcare professionals, attacks on police personnel, violations of social distancing norms in market places and opposition to setting up of quarantine centres and so on,” it said.
The ministry said if such incidents are allowed to occur without any restraining measures in hotspot districts and emerging hotspots or even places where large outbreaks or clusters may be expected, it would pose a serious health hazard for the people of the country.
The IMCTs would use the expertise of the central government and augment the states” efforts to fight and contain the spread of COVID-19 effectively.
These teams would make an on-spot assessment of the situation and issue necessary directions to state authorities for its redressal and submit their report to central government in the larger interest of the general public, the ministry said.
The IMCTs would be focusing on a range of issues including compliance and implementation of lockdown measures as per guidelines issued under the Disaster Management Act 2005, the supply of essential commodities, social distancing in the movement of people outside their homes, preparedness of health infrastructure, hospital facilities and sample statistics in the district.
Safety of health professionals, availability of test kits, PPEs, masks and other safety equipment; and conditions of the relief camps for labour and poor people will also be looked after by the IMCTs, the statement said.
