NE NEWS SERVICE
GANDHINAGAR, APRIL 3
A person who had tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Gujarat’s Panchmahal has passed away. The latest casualty has taken the state toll to eight. Seven more persons, two of them minors, have tested positive for coronavirus in Gujarat, taking the number of infections in the state to 95, the state health department has said.
A 78-year-old man died due to coronavirus on Friday morning, taking the death toll in Gujarat to eight, said officials. The elderly patient was a native of Panchmahal district and admitted to a government hospital in Vadodara, where he died in the wee hours, said Jayanti Ravi, Principal Secretary, Health.
With this, eight coronavirus positive persons have died so far in Gujarat, where 10 such patients have recovered from the disease and discharged from hospitals, she told reporters in Gandhinagar.
All the new cases, recorded during the last 24 hours, were reported from Ahmedabad.
They included a seven-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy, said Jayanti Ravi, Principal Secretary, Health.
She said out of the 1,944 tests for coronavirus conducted so far, 95 came positive, 1,847 came negative while two results were pending.
