NE NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, JAN 13
Gujarat reported 583 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, taking the tally of infections to 2,53,744, the state health department said.
The state also recorded four deaths due to the pandemic during the day, taking the death toll to 4,354.
With 792 patients being discharged from hospitals, the number of recovered cases in Gujarat rose to 2,42,164.
The coronavirus recovery rate in Gujarat thus further improved to 95.44 percent, the health department said.
The state now has 7,226 active cases including 56 patients who are on ventilators, it said.
No data on new tests conducted in the state was shared.
The state health department has stopped sharing the data on the number of tests conducted daily since January 10 in its official release but has been updating the daily test numbers on the dashboard every night.
When contacted, an official said that sharing the number of figures in the official release has lost relevance as the coronavirus positive cases have been on the decline.
“With the number of positive cases decreasing in Gujarat, the number of tests being conducted to detect the cases is also decreasing, as community screening is not required. So the test figure is no longer relevant,” he said.
On January 7, Gujarat crossed the 1-crore test mark with the number of samples tested till that date reaching 1,00,03,606.
The test figures are, however, being updated on the COVID dashboard hours after the official release is put out in the evening by the state health department.
As per the update, 44,853 tests were conducted on January 12, taking the total samples tested so far in Gujarat to 1,01,96,158.
After recording 1,442 COVID-19 cases on September 25, its highest single-day figure of that time, Gujarat witnessed a brief decline in daily new cases, dropping to a three-digit figure of 996 on October 19, and remaining in the same region until the first week of November.
After November 14, however, the daily cases surged, recording its highest single-day count of 1,515 on November 21, thereafter increasing to 1,607 cases, the highest single-day cases recorded so far, on November 27.
The cases again dropped to a three-digit figure of 960 on December 21 and have been on a regular decline since then, dropping further to 602 on January 11, as per the data.
On Wednesday, Ahmedabad recorded 116 new cases, Vadodara 107, Surat 98, and Rajkot 84.
Among other districts, Jamnagar reported 17 new cases, Anand, Gandhinagar, and Junagadh 16 each, Kutch and Mehsana 12 each, Bhavnagar 11, Amreli 10, etc.
Out of four deaths, two occurred in Ahmedabad while one person died each in Panchmahal and Surat, as per the release.
In the Union Territory of Daman, Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, one new coronavirus positive case was reported during the day while a patient has recovered from the infection, officials said.
With this, the total number of recoveries rose to 3,348, while the tally of COVID-19 cases stood at 3,355.
Gujarat COVID-19 figures are positive cases 2,53,744, new cases 583, deaths 4,354, active cases 7,226, and people tested so far figure not released.
Ahmedabad district logs 116 new cases; 170 recover
Ahmedabad district reported 116 fresh coronavirus positive cases on Wednesday, the highest in Gujarat, taking the total number of infections to 60,418, the state health department said.
With two more deaths, the count of fatalities in the district rose to 2,274, it said.
The overall number of recovered cases increased to 54,434 in Ahmedabad district with 170 patients getting discharged in the day.
Of the 116 new cases, 111 infections were reported in Ahmedabad city while five cases were from rural areas, the release said.
Of the total seven zones in Ahmedabad, the south zone has the highest number of 409 active cases, followed by the west zone with 405 cases, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) said.
The total number of active cases in the city is 2,279.
The total COVID-19 cases in rural Ahmedabad went up to 3,954, while recoveries rose to 3,881, officials said.
