NE NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, JUNE 26
With 580 new patients being detected since previous evening, the number of coronavirus cases in Gujarat crossed 30,000 on Friday, the health department said.
This is for the second time that a single-day highest increase of 580 was reported in the state.
The @MoHFW_INDIA Jt.Secretary Shri Lav Agarwal met CM Shri @vijayrupanibjp & DyCM Shri @Nitinbhai_Patel in Gandhinagar today and lauded the State Govt's novel initiative of real-time treatment monitoring of COVID19 patients at Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad through CM Dashboard pic.twitter.com/JtJyvgDBpi
— CMO Gujarat (@CMOGuj) June 26, 2020
While the number of cases reached 30,158, the death toll due to the pandemic rose to 1,772 with 18 persons succumbing to virus infection during the same period. One positive development was that the fatalities, which had been over 30 for almost the entire month of June, have now come down under 20 in the last few days, the health department said.
On June 21 too 580 new cases had been reported in the state.
AMC has set up an example in India of Public-Pvt Partnership in COVID mgmt Over 2000 beds arranged in more than 50 pvt COVID designated hospital, providing best care. Shri Hasmukh tells his story.@PMOIndia @CMOGuj @ibijalpatel @drrajivguptaias @Mukeshias @Divya_Bhaskar pic.twitter.com/JBBPt0LRsm
— Amdavad Municipal Corporation (@AmdavadAMC) June 26, 2020
532 coronavirus patients were discharged from hospitals in the state, taking the total of recovered patients to 22,038.
210 patients recovered in Ahmedabad district alone, followed by 149 in Surat, 101 in Vadodara, and 11 in Gandhinagar.
अहमदाबाद नगर निगम (@AMCAhmedabad) द्वारा संचालित SVP अस्पताल (@svphospital), अत्याधुनिक सुविधाओं के साथ, कोरोना में रोगियों के इलाज के लिए कार्यरत है।
देखिए हमारे संवाददाता का खास रिपोर्ट (3/3)@DDNewsHindi @DDNewslive @GujHFWDept @Nitinbhai_Patel @CMOGuj @MoHFW_INDIA pic.twitter.com/DOzglFOC05— DD News Gujarati (@DDNewsGujarati) June 26, 2020
Patients also recovered in other districts including Patan, Jamnagar, Kheda, Panchmahal, and Surendranagar.
Of 580 new cases, 219 were from Ahmedabad district alone, including 205 cases from the city. The district has reported 20,058 cases so far.
Other districts where a significant number of cases were reported in the last 24 hours were Surat (182), Vadodara (45) and Gandhinagar (14).
Surat’s case tally now stands at 4,058, only second to Ahmedabad. In the third place is Vadodara with 2,074 cases.
ભારત સરકારનાં આરોગ્ય અને પરિવાર કલ્યાણ વિભાગનાં સંયુક્ત સચિવશ્રી લવ અગ્રવાલ, આઈએએસની અમદાવાદ ખાતેની મુલાકાત. pic.twitter.com/sV1nklX7i7
— Amdavad Municipal Corporation (@AmdavadAMC) June 26, 2020
Eight COVID-19 patients died since Thursday evening in Ahmedabad, three in Surat, two each in Aravalli and Bharuch, and one each in Mehsana, Banaskantha and Patan districts.
Of 6,348 active cases in the state, 61 are on ventilators while 6,287 are stable.
As many as 2.30 lakh persons are home quarantined while 3,632 are kept in different facilities across the state.
अहमदाबाद नगर निगम (@AMCAhmedabad) द्वारा संचालित SVP अस्पताल (@svphospital) कोरोना के मरीजों को प्राइवेट अस्पताल जैसी सुविधाएं निशुल्क प्रदान करता हैं।
देखिए हमारे संवाददाता का खास रिपोर्ट (1/3)@DDNewsHindi @DDNewslive @GujHFWDept @Nitinbhai_Patel @CMOGuj @MoHFW_INDIA pic.twitter.com/YqH8Pv1OAr— DD News Gujarati (@DDNewsGujarati) June 26, 2020
Ahmedabad’s COVID-19 count goes beyond 20,000-mark
With the addition of 219 new COVID-19 cases in Ahmedabad district in the last 24 hours, its tally of patients crossed the 20,000-mark on Friday, the state health department said.
The number of cases in the district now stands at 20,058, it said.
The death of eight patients in the last 24 hours took the district’s fatality count to 1,398, the department said in a statement.
According to it, 210 patients undergoing treatment at different hospitals recovered from the infection and were given the discharge in the last 24 hours. Of them, 202 were from Ahmedabad city, while eight others were residents of different villages in the district.
Of the total 1,772 COVID-19 fatalities registered in Gujarat so far, as many as 1,398 deaths were from Ahmedabad district alone.
While 1,346 victims were from the city, 52 deaths have been reported in different villages of Ahmedabad district.
Of the 219 new cases, 205 were recorded in Ahmedabad city, while 14 patients were from rural parts of the district.
Out of the total of 20,058 cases registered in Ahmedabad district so far, as many as 19,285 were from the city, while 773 others were reported in other parts of the district so far.
The death rate of Ahmedabad which had been around 81 percent of the total toll also has come down less than 80 percent.
As many as 734 people, out of the toll of 1,772, have succumbed to the virus during 26 days of June.
Gujarat has one of the highest mortality rates for corona in the country – at 5.87 percent.
AMC has already notified the rates of Corona treatment in pvt designated hospitals, For AMC referred patients, full treatment cost is borne by AMC. Smt Bharti will tell more about it.@PMOIndia @CMOGuj @ibijalpatel @drrajivguptaias @Mukeshias @aajtak pic.twitter.com/59hXp7SMHW
— Amdavad Municipal Corporation (@AmdavadAMC) June 26, 2020
Gujarat CM holds meeting with Central health team
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on Friday held a meeting with a Central team led by Joint Secretary in the Health Ministry Lav Agarwal and apprised it about his government’s efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus.
The two-member team led by Agarwal was on a one-day visit to Gujarat to review the measures undertaken by the authorities to contain the spread of coronavirus.
In the evening, Agarwal met Rupani at his official residence in Gandhinagar, said a release by the Gujarat government.
With the help of the ”CM Dashboard” system, Ruapni gave Agarwal an overview of the functioning of Ahmedabad Civil Hospital and its COVID-19 ward.
The Dashboard has a video wall with a CCTV feed from the hospital.
The release claimed that the central team was impressed with this system which enables the chief minister to supervise the functioning of the hospital directly.
Earlier during the day, the two-member team visited some micro-containment zones, a private hospital, and the main control room of the ”108” ambulance service in Ahmedabad city before holding a meeting with top officials of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation.
It also visited a specially created COVID-19 ward in the Cancer Hospital adjacent to the main civil hospital.
At one point, Agarwal raised questions over the strategy of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) in declaring “micro-containment” zones as he felt a proactive approach was missing in tackling the crisis.
At Mansi circle, the civic body’s Medical Officer of Health, Dr Bhavin Solanki, failed to give a convincing answer when Agarwal sought to know why a particular housing society was not declared a micro-containment zone as soon as the first few cases emerged there in May-end.
“You made this (society) a micro-containment zone on June 19 or 20. If cases were emerging since May-end, then why you took these many days to declare it a micro-containment zone? What was the parameter you applied?” Agarwal asked Solanki, who struggled to give a convincing reply.
The brief conversation was captured on cameras and broadcast by local TV channels.
The two-member team, on a day-long tour of Gujarat, visited some containment zones, a private hospital, and the main control room of the ”108” ambulance service in the city till afternoon.
The team started its visit from Vasantnagar township in the Gota area of the city, a micro-containment zone, and collected information about the steps taken by the authorities to contain the spread of the virus, said the officials.
Its members were explained the functioning of mobile clinic vans, named ”Dhanvantari Arogya Rath”, launched earlier this month by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation to conduct health check-up of people and distribute medicines.
The team then visited micro-containment zones in different areas, including the housing society near Mansi circle, a locality in Shahpur, and another society in the Shahibaug area.
