by: Navjeevan Express

Coronavirus: Gujarat tally tops 24,000 with 514 new cases; death toll zooms past 1,500 as 28 more die

NE NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, JUNE 15
Gujarat reported 514 new coronavirus cases on Monday, taking the count to 24,104, while the death toll rose to 1,506 with 28 new fatalities, 23 of them in Ahmedabad, the state health department said.


With 339 more patients discharged from hospitals in the last 24 hours, the number of recoveries in the state increased to 16,672, it said.


The state now has 5,926 active cases, out of which 71 patients are on ventilators and the condition of 5,855 others is stable, the health department said.


Out of the 514 new COVID-19 cases recorded in the state, Ahmedabad alone reported 327 cases, taking the total in the district to 16,967.
The death toll in Ahmedabad rose to 1,210 with 23 more COVID-19 patients succumbing to the infection on Monday, the department said.


Despite the share of Corona positive cases from Ahmedabad having come down to 70.39 percent, the death toll rate of the city remained the same, around 81 percent of the total toll. A total of 465 people have succumbed there during the first fifteen days of June.


Till date, 1,213 people have died in Ahmedabad alone,
Out of the remaining five deaths on Monday, Surat reported four and Aravalli one.


Surat reported 64 new cases, taking its total to 2,643. In Vadodara, the coronavirus tally rose to 1,597 with the addition of 44 new cases.
Among other districts, Gandhinagar reported 15 new cases, while Jamnagar and Bharuch recorded nine each and Rajkot eight.
Sixteen other districts reported new COVID-19 cases on Monday, the health department said.
Out of the 339 patients who were discharged on Monday, 225 were from hospitals in Ahmedabad, 58 from Surat and 24 from Gandhinagar, among others, it said.
Gujarat has so far conducted tests for coronavirus on 2,92,909 samples, it said.

All private labs must have uniform COVID testing rate: Ahmed Patel
Congress Treasurer Ahmed Patel has demanded that the rate for COVID tests should be uniform at all private labs across the country.
“Why should Covid-19 testing charges in private laboratories vary in different parts of the country?
“It’s Rs 4,500 in Ahmedabad but Rs 2,200 in Mumbai. Central govt must work with states to enforce a uniform pricing policy for private labs across the country,” Patel said.
In Delhi also, the cost of COVID test has been fixed at Rs 4,500 as there had been different rates.