NE NEWS SERVICE
GANDHINAGAR, JUNE 9
Gujarat reported 470 new coronavirus patients on Tuesday, 331 of them in Ahmedabad, taking the number of cases in the state to 21,044, the health department said. With 33 COVID-19 patients dying on Tuesday, the death toll rose to 1,313, it said.
#Ahmedabad ના જાણિતા ક્રિટીકલ કેર સ્પેશ્યાલિસ્ટ Dr રાજ રાવલે અનોખો અભિગમ અપનાવ્યો, #COVID19 ના હળવા લક્ષણો ધરાવતા દર્દીઓને ઘરે જ સારવાર મળી રહે તે માટે તેમણે એક્સપર્ટ ડોક્ટર્સનું ગ્રુપ બનાવીને કોવિડ હોમકેર સેવા શરુ કરી.@drrajivguptaias #gujaratfightscorona #Doctors pic.twitter.com/zROABzSFdW
— Doordarshan Girnar (@ddgirnarlive) June 9, 2020
Ahmedabad district reported 331 new cases while Surat and Vadodara reported 62 and 32 new cases, respectively.
The total number of cases in Ahmedabad is now 14,962, while that in Surat and Vadodara is 2,207 and 1,360.
મોજે. મોહનપુર ગામે સમાજ સુરક્ષા વિભાગની “ગંગા-સ્વરૂપ બહેનોને સહાયતા” હેઠળ વિધવા બહેનોને પેન્શન મંજુરી હુકમનું વિતરણ કર્યું.@CMOGuj @pkumarias pic.twitter.com/vs3L3WJmYt
— . (@CollectorSK) June 9, 2020
On the other hand, 409 patients were discharged from hospitals, raising the number of recovered patients to 14,373.
Of 33 COVID-19 deaths reported on Tuesday, 27 occurred in Ahmedabad, two in Surat and one each in Mehsana, Aravalli, Amreli, and Panchmahal.
There are now 5,358 active cases in the state. 64 patients are on ventilators, the department said.
The most worrying is that although Ahmedabad’s contribution to the total positive cases is coming down from over 80 percent to presently around 70 percent, its death toll seems to remain steady.
Another issue of concern is that despite Ahmedabad’s positive cases remaining steady, at around 250 to 300 daily, the virus is rising in other cities like Surat, Gandhinagar, and in other districts like Sabarkantha, Banaskantha, and Aravalli.
The health authorities conducted a total of 5,298 RT-PCR tests across the state, out of which 470 cases were detected. The major contributor was Ahmedabad with 331, followed by Surat 62, Vadodara 32, Gandhinagar eight, Sabarkantha five, Anand four, Bhavnagar, Panchmahals, Patan and Kheda in Amreli three each, Rajkot, Bharuch and Valsad two each and Mehsana, Banaskantha, Aravalli, Kutch, Junagadh, and Navsari one case each.
Despite the share of Corona positive cases from Ahmedabad having come down to 71.09 per cent, the death toll rate of the city remained the same, at around 82 per cent. Till date, 1,066 have died in Ahmedabad, followed by 84 in Surat, 45 in Vadodara, 18 in Gandhinagar, 11 in Anand, 10 in Bhavnagar, eight each in Panchmahals, Aravalli and Mahesana and seven in Patan.
Of the total cases, Ahmedabad continued to lead the state with 14,962, followed by Surat with 2,208, Vadodara with 1,360, Gandhinagar with 432, Mahesana with 161, Bhavnagar and Banaskantha with 146 each, Rajkot with 133, Sabarkantha with 128, Aravalli with 120, Mahisagar with 116, Anand with 115, Panchmahals with 108, Patan with 106, Kheda with 93, Kutch with 91, Jamnagar with 66, Botad and Bharuch with 60 each, Valsad with 57 and Surendranagar with 56.
Health authorities has so far carried out a total of 2,61,587 tests in the state.
Of the total cases, 5,358 are active, out of which the condition of 5,299 is stable, whereas 64 critical patients are still on ventilator.
Right now, there are 2,09,673 people under quarantine where 2,03,050 are home quarantined and 6,623 in government facilities.
Senior IAS officer tests positive
Senior IAS officer and the secretary of the Gujarat IAS association, Hareet Shukla has tested positive for coronavirus in Ahmedabad, as per a report in Times of India. Shukla is one of the most decorated officers in the state and had been assigned an important role by the state government to keep a check on COVID-19 treatment in the government hospitals.
Shukla is also the secretary of science and technology department and CEO in-charge of Dholera SIR. It is yet to be determined how the senior IAS officer got infected. However, he is currently in home quarantine and has mild symptoms. He is on the verge of recovering fully and will be joining work soon.
However, Shukla, who is the first IAS officer to test positive for COVID-19 in Gujarat, is expected to first complete the mandatory isolation period once he recovers completely. Some of the staff members who worked under him have also tested positive in Ahmedabad. Contact tracing has been done and the identified contacts have been asked to quarantine.
Shukla said he will return to work a week after he tests negative and urged people to follow the rules and guidelines put in place by the medical authorities.
CM Shri @vijayrupanibjp today chaired a webinar on distribution of stipend worth Rs.3.38 crore to 753 Ph.D. research scholars under SHODH (ScHeme of Developing High Quality Research), a unique project of the Gujarat Govt to develop & promote research potential of the students. pic.twitter.com/pR2du9tcW7
— CMO Gujarat (@CMOGuj) June 9, 2020
“I don’t have any symptoms now after I tested positive a few days ago. I felt some symptoms so I got myself tested and the result was positive. On doctors’ advise, I was home quarantined and I am fine now. I will return to work in about a week after getting a negative test result. Together we will fight against the pandemic and win,” Shukla was quoted as saying by Times if India.
