NE NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, AUG 13
With 1,092 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, Gujarat’s tally crossed the 75,000 -mark on Thursday, while 18 more patients died due to the infection, five of them in Surat district, the state Health Department said.
The statewide tally increased to 75,482 with the addition of 1,092 new cases, said a release by the Health Department.
It said 18 persons with COVID-19 infection died across the state during the same period, taking the toll to 2,733, the release said.
Of these, five died in Surat district, followed by four in Ahmedabad, three in Rajkot, and one each in Bhavnagar, Gandhinagar, Gir-Somnath, Jamnagar, Kutch, and Vadodara districts, it said.
The release said 1,046 persons also recovered and discharged from different hospitals in the state in the last 24 hours, taking the number of such cases to 58,439.
The state government said it has conducted over 50,000 COVID-19 tests in the last 24 hours, almost double than what it was a week back.
With 50,817 tests conducted in one day, the per million average has now gone up to 781.80 test, almost double than what it was a week back, the release said.
The release said Gujarat has conducted 11,59,822 tests so far, of which 14,310 cases are still active.
Among these, 79 patients are on ventilator support, while 14,231 are stable.
Notably, with a significant number of recoveries being registered in the last couple of weeks, active cases are gradually decreasing.
As against 14,905 active cases on August 6, the number came down to 14,310 on Thursday, a decrease of 595 cases in a week.
With 1,092 new cases on Thursday, Gujarat was on the 14th spot in the country in terms of daily fresh infections.
Of these, 251 cases were reported from Surat district alone, while Ahmedabad was the on the second spot with 166.
Surat reports 251 new cases; 198 recover
Surat district recorded 251 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, taking the tally to 16,796 on Thursday, while five more patients died due to the infection, the state Health Department said.
The rise in the number of fresh cases in Surat was the highest for any district in the state for the day, said a release by the Health Department.
Surat district’s tally of 16,796 cases is second biggest after Ahmedabad, where 28,517 persons were found infected so far.
Out of the 251 new cases, 181 were from Surat city and 70 from rural parts of the district, the release said.
Four persons from the city died in the last 24 hours, while one patient succumbed in rural Surat, taking the toll to 715 in the district, it said.
Also, 198 persons, highest for a district in Gujarat, were discharged in the last 24 hours, taking the number of recoveries to 12,739, the release said.
166 new cases in A’bad; 235 discharged
Ahmedabad district recorded 166 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, taking the tally to 28,517 on Thursday, the state Health Department said.
With the death of four more COVID-19 patients during the same period, the toll in the district reached 1,648, said a release by the Health Department.
Out of the 166 (rpt 166) new cases, 143 were reported from Ahmedabad city and 23 from rural parts of the district, said the release.
As many as 235 patients undergoing treatment at different hospitals in the district also recovered and discharged in the last 24 hours, it added.
