NE NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, AUG 4
Gujarat reported 1,020 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, taking its COVID-19 tally to 65,704, while 25 more patients succumbed to the infection, 11 of them in Surat, the state health department said.
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With 25 more patients dying due to the infection, the toll rose to 2,534, the department said in a release here.
As many as 898 patients were discharged from hospitals on Tuesday, taking the number of recovered cases in the state to 48,359, it said.
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Surat reported the highest number of 245 new cases on Tuesday followed by Ahmedabad at 153.
The total COVID-19 cases in Surat rose to 14,665 and in Ahmedabad to 27,122.
Among other districts, Vadodara reported 105 new cases, followed by Rajkot at 88 and Bhavnagar at 55.
Junagadh reported 38 new cases, Gandhinagar 28, Dahod and Kutch 23 each, Jamnagar and Panchmahal 22 each, Narmada 20, Amreli 18, Bharuch, Botad and Gir Somnath 16 each, Mehsana 15, Navsari and Sabarkantha 13 each, Mahisagar 12 and Kheda 11, among others, the release said.
Out of the 25 new fatalities, Surat reported the highest at 11, taking its toll to 643, followed by Junagadh at four.
Ahmedabad reported three deaths, raising its toll to 1,612.
Jamnagar also reported three deaths, Vadodara two, Bhavnagar, and Rajkot one each, the department said.
Surat reported the highest number of 213 new recoveries and Ahmedabad 107. The number of recovered cases in Surat rose to 9,728 and in Ahmedabad to 21,908.
There are at present 14,811 active cases in the state, of which 87 patients are put on ventilators, while the condition of the remaining 14,724 is stable, the release said.
The state conducted 20,735 tests for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours at a rate of 319 tests per day per million, the department said.
A total of 8,54,839 samples have been tested so far for the virus, it said.
As per the health department, a total of 4,89,338 persons are currently quarantined in the state.
Surat reports 245 new cases, 11 deaths
Surat reported 245 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, raising the tally in the south Gujarat district to 14,665, the state health department said.
The district reported 11 new fatalities, taking the toll to 643, it said.
Surat reported the highest number of new cases as well as fresh deaths in the state, which reported 1,020 infections and 25 fatalities on Tuesday.
Also, 213 more persons were discharged from hospitals in Surat district following recovery.
The number of recovered cases rose to 10,321 in Surat, where 3,701 patients are under treatment, district officials said.
Out of the 245 new cases, the city reported 194 and rural parts of the district 51.
With this, the number of COVID-19 cases in the city rose to 11,791, and in rural parts to 2,875, the officials said.
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153 new cases in Ahmedabad, three deaths
Ahmedabad recorded 153 new coronavirus patients on Tuesday which took the case tally in the district to 27,122, the Gujarat health department said.
The number of COVID-19 deaths in the district rose to 1,612 with three more patients dying, it said.
The number of recovered cases rose to 21,908 with 107 patients getting discharged from hospitals during the day.
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Ahmedabad city reported 138 new COVID-19 cases while the remaining 15 were from rural parts of the district.
All three fatalities were reported in the city area, the health department said in its release.
The figures for the daily increase in patients in the city dropped below 200 after July 2. Since July 27, Ahmedabad city has reported less than 150 new COVID-19 cases daily, the statistics provided by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) showed.
City’s west and north-west zones remain the worst affected, accounting for 17.6 per cent of active COVID-19 cases, followed by the south-west zone which has contributed 15.2 percent of active cases, the AMC said.
The central zone has the lowest number of active cases at 9.7 percent.
The total number of active cases in the city is 3,054.
With 15 new patients, the number of cases in rural parts of the district stands at 1,345. Six patients were discharged on Tuesday, so the number of active cases in rural areas is 113.
