NE NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, JULY 23
With a highest single-day spike of 1,078 cases, 256 from Surat alone, the coronavirus case count in Gujarat crossed 52,000 on Thursday, the state health department said.
A team of doctors from @cimshospital, Ahmedabad today called-on CM Shri @vijayrupanibjp to express gratitude for Gujarat Govt’s co-operation that made the heart transplant of a 34-year lady successful for which the financial assistance to the patient was given from CM Relief Fund pic.twitter.com/wUsEPMWpLD
— CMO Gujarat (@CMOGuj) July 23, 2020
While the number of cases reached 52,563, the death toll due to the pandemic in the state rose to 2,257 with 28 patients dying since Wednesday evening, it said.
#Covid_19 @Mukeshias @AmdavadAMC #gujarat #coronavirus No herd immunity in Ahmedabad, reveals COVID-19 study https://t.co/w59tag4h3O
— Nandini Oza (@NandiniOza) July 23, 2020
718 persons were discharged from hospitals in the state during this period, taking the total of recovered coronavirus patients to 37,958.
Of 28 persons who succumbed to the viral infection since the previous evening, 14 died in Surat district alone, followed by five in Ahmedabad, two each in Kutch, Patan, and Vadodara and one each in Bhavnagar, Botad, and Morbi.
અ.મ્યુ.કો.ના મેડીકલ ઓફિસર ઓફ હેલ્થ ડો. ભાવિન સોલંકી દ્વારા અમદાવાદ શહેરની હર્ડ ઇમ્યુનીટી અંગે વિશ્લેષણ.#LifePostiveCoronaNegetive#AmdavadAMC @PMOIndia @CMOGuj @ibijalpatel @drrajivguptaias @Mukeshias pic.twitter.com/Bnc3dBxeCz
— Amdavad Municipal Corporation (@AmdavadAMC) July 23, 2020
Gujarat was in the 12th spot in the country in terms of new cases reported on Thursday and in the eighth spot in terms of active cases, the health department said.
So far 5,92,123 tests have been conducted in the state.
There are 12,348 active cases in Gujarat. Eighty-nine of these patients are on ventilator.
205 patients recovered in Surat district on Thursday, followed by 203 in Ahmedabad and 71 in Vadodara.
Surat also contributed the highest 256 new cases, -181 from Surat city and remaining from other parts of the district.
It was followed by Ahmedabad which reported 210 new cases, including 187 from Ahmedabad city.
Ahmedabad district has recorded 25,173 cases, the highest in the state, so far.
With Thursday’s increase of 256 cases, the tally of cases in Surat district has gone up to 11,384, second highest after Ahmedabad.
Other districts where a significant number of cases were reported since Wednesday evening are Vadodara (82), Rajkot (59), and Narmada 44.
Out of around 4.31 lakh quarantined persons in the state, as many as 4.30 lakh are home quarantined while 1,809 are kept in different facilities across the state.
હાલમાં અમદાવાદ શહેરમાં કુલ ૨૧૮ માઇક્રો કન્ટેઈન્મેન્ટ વિસ્તાર અમલમાં છે. જે પૈકી આજ રોજ નીચે જણાવેલ ૧૦ માઈક્રો કન્ટેઈન્મેન્ટ વિસ્તારને દુર તેમજ ૧૭ વિસ્તારોને માઈક્રો કન્ટેઈન્મેન્ટ વિસ્તાર તરીકે જાહેર કરવાનો નિર્ણય કરવામાં આવેલ છે. જેની વિગતવાર માહિતી નીચે મુજબ છે.#AmdavadAMC pic.twitter.com/pd9hVTCnxt
— Amdavad Municipal Corporation (@AmdavadAMC) July 23, 2020
Ahmedabad tops 25K-mark with 210 cases
Ahmedabad district recorded 210 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, taking the tally beyond the 25,000-mark on Thursday, while five more patients died due to the infection, the state Health Department said.
With 210 new coronavirus cases, the tally in Ahmedabad district rose to 25,173, it said.
પ્રખ્યાત #Neurologist અને પદ્મશ્રી પુરસ્કૃત પ્રોફેસર ડૉ. સુધીર શાહ સાથે 'કોવિડ-19 અને મગજ પર તેની અસરો' વિશે દૂરદર્શન સાથે ખાસ વાતચીત
Watch – https://t.co/EF6CIfFUaG#Covid_19 @iisnishith @DrSUDHIRshah @MoHFW_GUJARAT
— DD News Gujarati (@DDNewsGujarati) July 23, 2020
Ahmedabad’s COVID-19 tally accounts for nearly half of the cases registered across the state till now, that is 52,563.
Out of the 210 new cases, 187 were reported from from Ahmedabad city and 23 from rural parts of the district, said a release by the Health Department.
https://twitter.com/DDNewsGujarati/status/1286178875882364928?s=20
While four deaths were reported from the city, one patient succumbed in a rural area in the last 24 hours, it said.
The death toll in the district now stands at 1,565.
As many as 203 patients undergoing treatment at different hospitals in the district recovered and discharged in the last 24 hours, the release added.
These 203 recoveries, the second-highest after Surat, included 189 from the city and 14 from different villages of Ahmedabad district.
Out of the total 2,257 COVID-19 deaths registered in Gujarat so far, as many as 1,565 were from Ahmedabad district alone.
While 1,507 victims were from the city, 58 deaths were reported from different villages of Ahmedabad district.
Of the total 25,173 cases registered in Ahmedabad district so far, as many as 24,029 were from the city and the rest 1,144 from rural areas.
