NE NEWS SERVICE
GANDHINAGAR, JUNE 7
With 480 fresh coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, Gujarat’s Covid-19 count has now surpassed 20,000-mark on Sunday to reach 20,097, according to state health department.
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— Gujarat Information (@InfoGujarat) June 7, 2020
Along with that, the death toll in the state rose to 1,249 as 30 more patients succumbed to the highly contagious disease, it said.
Of these, Ahmedabad today recorded 21 fatalities since Saturday, pushing the death toll over 1,000 in the city alone, a health official said. Currently, Ahmedabad has reported 1,015 virus-related deaths and 14,285 confirmed Covid-19 patients.
Apart from that, a total of 319 COVID-19 patients were discharged from hospitals in the state on Sunday, taking the number of recovered patients to 13,643.
Currently there are 5,205 active cases in the state, with 69 patients on ventilator support. The condition of 5,138 others is stable.
Ahmedabad reported 318 out of the total 480 cases on Sunday, and 21 out of 30 fatalities across the state.
The tally of cases in Ahmedabad district crossed the 14,000-mark at 14,285, while the death toll crossed the 1,000 -mark to stand at 1,015, the department said.
Surat reported 64 new cases and Vadodara 35, which took the number of patients in these two districts to 2,097 and 1,293 respectively.
Of the total 16 districts where new cases were detected on Sunday, Gandhinagar reported 19 and Mehsana six.
Of the 30 deaths reported in the state Sunday, 21 were from Ahmedabad, two from Surat, and one each from Banaskantha, Bharuch, Gandhinagar, Panchmahal, Mehsana, Kutch, and Rajkot.
As many as 2,11,569 people are in quarantine facilities in Gujarat, the health department said.
A total 2,51,686 samples have been tested so far in the state, it further said.
Ahmedabad death toll goes past 1,000; cases 14,285
The number of COVID-19 deaths in Ahmedabad crossed the 1,000-mark on Sunday and reached to 1,015 with 21 more people succumbing to the viral infection, the state health department said.
✅માઈક્રો કન્ટેઈન્મેન્ટ વિસ્તાર સિવાયના વિસ્તારોમાં મોલ્સ રેસ્ટોરન્ટસ, હોટેલ્સ/આતિથ્ય એકમો તથા ધાર્મિક સ્થળો તા.8-6-20ના રોજથી ખુલ્લા રાખવાનો નિર્ણય
✅કેન્દ્રીય આરોગ્ય, પરિવાર કલ્યાણ મંત્રાલય અને ગૃહ વિભાગ દ્વારા જારી કરવામાં આવેલ સામેલ માર્ગદર્શિકાનો ચુસ્તપણે અમલ કરવાનો રહેશે pic.twitter.com/Q9vjcPb7Hq
— Amdavad Municipal Corporation (@AmdavadAMC) June 7, 2020
The number of cases in the district rose by 318 to 14,285.
A total of 223 patients were discharged in the day, it said.
As per the health bulletin released by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), the city has reported 13,614 cases so far, while the number of recovered patients stood at 9,800 as of Sunday afternoon, which is around 72 per cent of the total cases.
✅104 helpline service available in Ahmedabad for health checkups
✅Around 40 fully loaded 104 Ambulances in service
✅A team of five medical and paramedical staff in each Ambulance@PMOIndia @CMOGuj @ibijalpatel @drrajivguptaias @Mukeshias#LifePositiveCoronaNegative pic.twitter.com/ymHqjFajSu
— Amdavad Municipal Corporation (@AmdavadAMC) June 7, 2020
With 978 deaths in the city so far, the fatality rate now stands at 7.2 percent, it said.
The number of the active cases now stands at 2,836, which is around 21 percent of the total cases, the AMC said.
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Of the six zones, the north zone has the highest number of active cases at 818, followed by the west zone at 409, and the central zone at 356.
529 “super spreaders”, including vegetable vendors and grocery store owners, are still under treatment in the city, the AMC said.
The total number of COVID-19 cases in rural Ahmedabad, covering nine talukas, have risen to 384 with 24 new cases, of which 224 patients have been discharged.
Rural Ahmedabad has reported the death of 24 patients, including one on Sunday, so far.
The unknown #coronavirus soldiers! Be RPF, Goods Clerks, Train Crew, Station staff, Labourers & many other. Since the beginning of #Lockdown, essential commodities are being transported regularly by WR. On 7/6/2020, loading going on in Parcel Specials from Porbandar & Karambeli. pic.twitter.com/KKvA8J10Xs
— Western Railway (@WesternRly) June 7, 2020
Comorbidities, late treatment pushing up death rate in Gujarat, say doctors
The Gujarat government on Sunday said existing comorbidities among COVID-19 patients and delay in availing medical treatment are mainly responsible for the high death rate in Ahmedabad and rest of the state.
At 6.22 percent, Gujarat has the highest death rate of COVID-19 patients in the country while the fatality rate for Ahmedabad stands at even higher at 7.2 percent, a senior bureaucrat said.
As on Sunday, Gujarat’s overall COVID-19 case count mounted to 20,097 with 1,249 deaths so far, including 14,285 cases and 1,015 fatalities from Ahmedabad district.
“84 percent of the COVID-19 victims in Gujarat had comorbidities and (also members of) vulnerable groups,” state principal secretary (Health) Jayanti Ravi told reporters.
Ravi said the death rate is high among patients in vulnerable groups.
“These groups include the people above 65 years of age, children below 10 years and pregnant women. This vulnerable group along with those having co-morbidities are at high risk,” Ravi explained while talking about the high death incidence in Gujarat.
Another reason is the late arrival of patients for medical treatment, she said.
“While COVID-19 death rate in the country is 2.8 per cent, the same in Gujarat is double than the national average. The death rate of Gujarat is higher in comparison to all other states,” Ravi said.
While the death rate in the UK was 14.17 percent, it was 14.40 percent in Italy, 19.13 percent in France, 5 percent in the USA and 7.88 percent in New York, she said.
“The death rate is high in Britain and France but the same is very low in neighbouring Germany. The reason for that is still not known,” she said.
Ravi said the state government had taken all necessary steps and is working hard to save every life.
“The government has formed a panel of top private doctors to deal with the pandemic situation. They will submit plans for short-term, medium-term and long-term,” she said.
Meanwhile, Dr Dileep Mawlankar, who is one of the members of the expert group of doctors formed by the government, said the only solution to the problem is the development of “herd immunity”.
“Early analysis suggests that those cities like Ahmedabad which are facing bad situation due to the pandemic will come out of it fast as the herd immunity develops,” Dr Mawlnakar said.
Herd immunity means the resistance to the spread of a contagious disease within a population that results if a sufficiently high proportion of individuals are immune to the disease, especially through vaccination.
He further said that data for Ahmedabad suggest that areas which were worst affected by a coronavirus in the initial stage are now reporting lesser number of cases.
“This means that there is a possibility that herd immunity has developed among all the people living in a particular area,” he added.
Dr Tejas Patel, a noted cardiologist and Padma Shri Awardee, who is part of the group of doctors, said on Sunday in a news briefing in Gandhinagar that “There is no exact reason behind the high or low mortality rate that we can ascertain for sure. It behaves differently in different regions or countries like Italy, Britain, Spain or even the United States which all have different figures. As of today, it is impossible to give an answer as to what causes the high mortality rate.”
