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GANDHINAGAR, APRIL 10
The number of coronavirus cases in Gujarat rose to 378 after 116 new cases were reported since Thursday night, a senior health official said on Friday.
The increase in cases for 24 hours is the highest so far.
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With two more deaths reported during this period, the death toll due to coronavirus reached 19, said Jayanti Ravi, Principal Secretary, Health.
Of 116 cases, 55 were reported in Ahmedabad and 37 in Vadodara. The total number of cases found in Ahmedabad is now 197.
સગર્ભા નોકરી કરતા હોય ત્યારે તેમને મેટરનીટી લીવ મળી રહે તે માટે સરકાર દ્વારા કાયદા ઘડવામાં આવ્યા છે ત્યારે કોરોના સામેની લડતમાં મેટરનીટી લીવનો ત્યાગ કરીને ફરજના કલાકો સિવાય પણ આવશ્યક જણાતા સતત હાજર રહીને કર્તવ્યનિષ્ઠાનું ઉત્તમ ઉદાહરણ આણંદ જિલ્લાના પેટલાદ તાલુકાના… pic.twitter.com/J0XeErcsaV
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Most of the new cases came from areas that have already been declared as hotspots, such as Bapunagar, Shah-e- Alam, Dudheshwar, Kalupur, Manekchawk, and Juhapura, Ravi said.
The spurt in the numbers was the result of aggressive testing and therefore people need not panic, she added.
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During the day, seven cases emerged from a single cluster in Amod tehsil of Bharuch district.
A police probe revealed that four of them are religious preachers from Tamil Nadu and attached to a sub-sect of the Tablighi Jamaat.
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During the day, new cases were also found in Surat (3), Rajkot (5), Bhavnagar (4), two each in Patan and Kutch while one case was reported in Gandhinagar, said Ravi.
Those who tested positive on Friday included a doctor in Ahmedabad who was engaged in the collection of coronavirus samples, the official said.
Of 37 cases reported in Vadodara during the day, at least 17 came from Nagarwada area of old Vadodara city, taking the total number of cases in Vadodara to 59.
IAS officer Vinod Rao, primary education secretary, has been camping in Vadodara to oversee the screening and testing operation there.
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Cases were rising because of proactive testing and surveying, he said.
“The entire Nagarwada area, with a population of 5,000, has been already sealed and declared as the red zone. Cases are rising because of our targeted efforts and mass screening in that area,” said Rao, in-charge secretary of Vadodara.
Out of total 378 cases reported so far, Ahmedabad recorded the highest 197 cases, followed by Vadodara (59), Surat (27), Bhavnagar (22), Rajkot(18), 14 each in Gandhinagar and Patan, Bharuch (7), Kutch (4), Porbandar (3), two each in Mehsana, Gir-Somnath, Chhotaudepur, and Anand and one each in Panchmahal, Jamnagar, Morbi, Sabarkantha and Dahod.
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“Once again we say that this is nothing to be worried about, as aggressive testing is been carried out and we were expecting a large number of positive cases coming out. The decision of going for intensive testing on a campaign mode was taken 4 days ago by the high-powered committee chaired by the Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani,” said Jayanti Ravi.
“Compared to the testing we are carrying out, the number of positive cases is far less. Out of the total 539 cases checked for corona in Ahmedabad, there were only 44 cases positive. Similarly in other cities also the number is quite less compared to the total tests carried out,” added Ravi.
“We tested 1,519 samples since Thursday night and found 116 samples positive. Till now, 7,718 persons have been tested in Gujarat, out of whom 378 came out positive for the virus,” said Ravi.
As a precautionary measure, health department will conduct 100 tests in the districts where no case has surfaced yet, she told reporters.
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With two more deaths, the death toll due to the deadly infection in Gujarat has gone up to 19.
A 40-year-old man from Ahmedabad and an 81-year-old man from Gandhinagar died on Friday.
While the Ahmedabad patient was suffering from a kidney ailment and breathed his last at Ahmedabad civil hospital, the Gandhinagar resident, who contracted the virus from close contact, died at Gandhinagar civil hospital.
In good news, seven persons recovered and were discharged, taking the number of those who recovered to 33, Ravi said.
Of 19 persons who have succumbed to coronavirus in the state so far, seven died in Ahmedabad, followed by Surat (4), two each in Vadodara and Bhavnagar, and one each in Gandhinagar, Panchmahal, Patan, and Jamnagar.
Three of them had returned from a foreign country, three had travelled to another state and 13 had come in contact with other local patients, said Ravi.
“Out of the total 326 active cases, the condition of 323 is stable, they are on normal air or simple oxygen, whereas the condition of 3 who is critical and they are on ventilator,” added Ravi.
Three positive patients were discharged on Friday. A total of 33 patients have been discharged till date. On Friday, a Gandhinagar female (32) and another female (59) were discharged from the SVP hospital in Ahmedabad, while a male (66) was discharged from GMERS hospital Gotri.
“The total number of people quarantined in the state is 12,352, where 11,015 are home quarantined, 1,170 in government facilities and 167 in private facilities,” added Ravi.
Stone-pelting on police in Ahmedabad and Vadodara
Police sources said that over a dozen persons were arrested from Juhapura area of Ahmedabad for stone-pelting on police vehicles over the issue of strict implementation of lockdown rules on Friday.
Similar incidents were also reported from Panigate area of Vadodara on Friday.
5 Tablighi Jamaat members test positive: DGP
The Gujarat police on Friday identified three more persons who took part in a gathering of the Tablighi Jamaat in Delhi last month, taking the count of attendees from the state to 130, and five members of the outfit tested positive for coronavirus, a senior official said.
The event, held in Nizamuddin, was attended by over 9,000 people, including from foreign nations, and is being seen as one of the prime reasons for the virus spread as many of the participants, who tested positive later, fanned out across the country for missionary works.
“Three attendees were traced in Bhavnagar. An attendee who was traced earlier tested positive for coronavirus today,” Gujarat Director General of Police Shivanand Jha said.
The number of Nizamuddin event attendees who have tested positive stands at 13 in the state.
Jha said four people who tested positive for the virus in Bharuch on Friday are from the Shura sub-sect of Tablighi Jamaat and hail from Tamil Nadu, though they did not attend last month’s Nizamuddin event.
16 held for offering Friday prayers in mosques
Sixteen people were arrested in Gujarat’s Vadodara and the Union Territory of Daman for offering Friday prayers in mosques despite lockdown and social distancing orders in place for the novel coronavirus outbreak, police said.
While nine were held from Vadodara’s Panigate area, seven were nabbed from a chawl in Daman, an official said, adding that they have been charged under section 188 of the IPC for disobeying official orders.
Two days ago, seven persons were arrested in Vadodara for gathering inside a mosque in Raopura area to offer namaz.
Over 200 farmers give Rs 2,000 each to PM CARES fund
Over 200 farmers from Amreli and Bhavnagar districts in Gujarat have donated their Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi amount of Rs 2,000 to the PM CARES fund set up to fight the coronavirus outbreak, officials said on Friday. As part of the Centre’s Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi, farmers get Rs 6,000 as minimum income support in three equal installments, the last of which was disbursed recently, they said.
“The government takes care of farmers by giving us financial support in the form of Kisan Nidhi. Now it is time for us to help. Several farmers from our village have donated their Rs 2,000 Kisan Nidhi amount to PM CARES fund,” Ukabhai Bhatti of Ditla village of Amreli district said.
BJP leader from Amreli, Dileep Sanghani, said as many as 200 farmers from Amreli have come forward and deposited cheques of Rs 2,000 each into the fund at Amreli District Cooperative Bank since Thursday.
“I had appealed earlier that farmers who do not need this money should come forward to help the Centre in fighting coronavirus. Till now, 200 farmers have already deposited Rs 2,000 each into the special fund for fighting the pandemic. On an average, 100 farmers are visiting the bank to donate the money they had received under Kisan Nidhi scheme,” Sanghani said, adding that farmers from Bhavnagar were also lending a helping hand.
“Farmers have always helped the country during difficult times. A total of 56 farmers of our village have decided to donate Rs 2,000 of the Kisan Nidhi scheme to the fund meant to fight the virus outbreak,” said Kaushik Vekaria, sarpach of Amreli’s Devrajia village.
