NE NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, SEPT 26
Gujarat on Saturday reported 1,417 fresh COVID-19 cases, taking the total count of infections to 1,31,808, the state health department said.
With 13 more people succumbing to the infection, including three each in Surat and Ahmedabad, the cumulative fatality count went up to 3,409, it said.
While two patients each died in Vadodara and Rajkot, one fatality each was reported from Bhavnagar, Gir Somnath, and Patan, the department said.
A total of 1,419 patients were discharged in the state in the day, taking the total number of recoveries to 1,11,909, the department said.
With this, the case recovery rate in the state now stands at 84.90 percent, it said in a release.
The state now has 16,490 active cases.
At 297, Surat reported the highest number of cases in the day in the state, followed by Ahmedabad with 195 cases.
Rajkot reported 168 new infections, followed by Vadodara (136) and Jamnagar (110), the department said.
Among other districts, Mehsana reported 48 cases, Kutch 42, Banaskantha 37, Junagadh 36, Patan 35, Bhavnagar 33, Amreli 32, Gandhinagar 31, Panchmahal 25, Morbi 22, Bharuch 21, Gir Somnath and Surendranagar 19 each, Mahisagar 17, Dahod 15, Kheda and Narmada ten, etc.
A total of 61,865 tests were conducted during the day, at the rate of 951.77 tests per day per million population, the department said.
A total of 41,72,051 samples have been tested in the state so far, it said.
Gujarat’s COVID-19 figures are as follows: Positive cases 1,31,808, new cases 1,417, deaths 3,409, discharged 1,11,909, active cases 16,490, and people tested so far 41,72,051.
Ahmedabad district’s COVID-19 cases cross 36,000
The COVID-19 tally in Ahmedabad district rose to 36,048 on Saturday with the addition of 195 fresh cases, the Gujarat health department said.
With three persons succumbing to the infection in the city, the total toll in the district went up to 1,816, it said.
A total of 182 patients, including 156 from Ahmedabad and 26 from rural areas, were discharged in the day, taking the count of recoveries in the district to 29,924, the department said in a release.
Of the 195 new infections, 175 were reported from Ahmedabad city, while 20 cases were detected in rural areas.
Of the total 2,355 cases in rural Ahmedabad, 2,243 patients have been discharged so far, including 26 in the day, officials said.
Ahmedabad civic body has so far detected 966 COVID-19 cases after conducting 67,845 tests in 7,810 offices in the city under its “COVID-19 coordinator scheme,” a senior official has said.
As per the COVID-19 bulletin issued by the civic body, the city has 3,794 active cases.
At 681, the COVID-19 west zone has the highest number of such cases.
