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AHMEDABAD, DEC 14
Gujarat on Monday reported 1,120 fresh COVID-19 cases, taking the count of infections to 2,28,803, the state health department said.
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With 11 more patients succumbing to the viral disease, including seven in Ahmedabad, the cumulative toll mounted to 4,182, it said.
At 1,389, the number of recoveries exceeded the new cases in the day. The total count of recoveries has reached 2,11,603, it said, adding that the recovery rate now stands at 92.48 per cent.
The state now has 13,018 active cases, it said.
A total of 55,807 samples were tested in the last 24 hours in the state at the rate of 858.57 tests per day per million population, taking the total number of tests to 87,25,383.
Ahmedabad recorded 247 new cases in the day, Surat 175, Vadodara 151 and Rajkot 129.
Among other districts, Gandhinagar added 53 cases, Mehsana 47, Jamnagar 35, Surendranagar 31, Sabarkantha 22, Junagadh 20, Amreli, Kheda, Kutch and Panchmahal 17 each, Bhavnagar 16, Anand and Morbi 15 each, Bharuch 14, Banaskantha and Narmada 13 each, Gir Somnath 10, etc.
Among 11 deaths, three occurred in Surat and one in Vadodara, the release said.
In the Union Territory of Daman, Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, total COVID-19 cases remained at 3,327 with no new case being reported in the day.
The tally of recovered cases rose to 3,309, officials said.
Gujarat COVID-19 figures are positive cases 2,28,803, new cases 1,120, deaths 4,182, active cases 13,018 and people tested so far 87,25,383.
Ahmedabad sees 247 cases, 7 deaths; 238 recover
Ahmedabad added 247 cases to its COVID-19 tally on Tuesday, the highest for the day for any district in Gujarat, while seven people died and 238 recovered, an official said.
The overall count of the infection is now 54,208, which includes 2,180 deaths, while 49,025 people have been discharged so far, he added.
“In Ahmedabad city, as against 237 new cases being reported, 229 people recovered. In the rural part of the district, it was 10 and nine respectively,” he said.
The bed occupancy rate in the city’s COVID-19 designated private hospitals dropped significantly to 40.2 percent, indicating an improvement in the outbreak situation here, officials pointed out.
“Of the 3,775 beds available in 107 private hospitals, 1,517 were occupied, with 133 beds occupied in ICUs with ventilators and 132 vacant. In the city’s private COVID care centres, only seven beds out of 318 are occupied,” said the Ahmedabad Hospitals and Nursing Homes Association.
An AMC official said the city’s north-west zone had 484 active cases, followed by the west zone with 455, and the south-west zone with 405.
The number of micro containment areas in the city stood at 72, down from 87 a day earlier.
Surat sees 175 COVID-19 cases, 3 deaths; 217 recover
Surat recorded 175 COVID-19 cases and three deaths on Monday, taking the infection tally to 46,523 and toll to 1,106, an official said.
He said 178 people from city limits and 39 from the rural part of the district were discharged during the day.
“Of the new cases, Surat city accounted for 146. It now has a recovery rate of 95.09 per cent as 33,032 people have been discharged. A total of 14,476 people are quarantined and 321 are hospitalised,” the Surat Municipal Corporation official said.
He said the bed occupancy rate of civil hospital and SMIMER hospital, which collectively have 103 patients, stood at 2.6 percent and 5.4 percent respectively.
Night curfew on, no parties post 9 pm on Dec 31 in Ahmedabad
Since a night curfew is in place in Ahmedabad in Gujarat to contain the coronavirus outbreak, there will be no parties on December 31 to ring in the new year, a senior police official said on Monday.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Control Room) Harshad Patel said police will be deployed in uniform as well as plainclothes to nab those moving about in a drunken state or breaking outbreak norms.
“Since night curfew is already in effect in the city, all kinds of celebrations on the night of December 31 are prohibited. If police come across any such activity after 9:00 pm, appropriate action, including registration of FIR, will be taken against violators,” Patel told reporters.
He said those celebrating before 9 pm need to follow all COVID-19 guidelines, including maintaining social distancing and wearing masks.
As many as 237 new coronavirus cases emerged in Ahmedabad city in a 24-hour period ending at 5 pm on Monday, officials said.
To contain the outbreak, the state government had imposed the curfew between 9 pm and 6 am in Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, and Rajkot from November 23.
