NE NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, OCT 7
Gujarat reported 1,311 new coronavirus positive cases on Wednesday, taking its count of infections to 1,46,673, the state health department said.
With nine patients succumbing to the infection, including four in Ahmedabad, the overall death toll went up to 3,531, it said.
While three patients died in Surat, one person succumbed each in Mehsana and Vadodara, it said.
Recoveries outnumbered new cases in the day, with 1,414 people getting discharged, raising the number of recovered people to 1,26,657, the department said in a release.
The state”s recovery rate has now reached 86.35 percent, while the number of active cases stands at 16,485, it said.
At 280, Surat reported the highest number of new cases in the state in the day, followed by Ahmedabad with 188 fresh infections.
Rajkot and Vadodara added 134 and 123 new cases, respectively.
Among other districts, Jamnagar reported 93 cases, Mehsana 53, Gandhinagar 51, Junagadh 39, Amreli and Banaskantha 33 each, Bhavnagar and Kutch 27 each, Patan 25, Bharuch 21, Panchmahal and Sabarkantha 20 each, Morbi 15, Anand and Narmada 14 each, Navsari 13, Tapi 12, and Surendranagar ten, the department said.
51,385 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours at the rate of 790.54 tests per day per million of the population, it added.
A total of 48,06,040 samples have been tested so far, the department said.
Gujarat COVID-19 figures are as follows: Positive cases: 1,46,673, new cases: 1,311, deaths: 3,531, discharged: 1,26,657, active cases: 16,485, people tested so far: 48,06,040.
188 new COVID-19 cases, 272 recoveries in Ahmedabad; four die
The COVID-19 tally in Ahmedabad district of Gujarat rose to 38,185 after 188 new cases were reported on Wednesday, the state health department said.
As the virus claimed four more lives, the district’s death toll rose to 1,851, it said.
The number of recovered patients in the district outstripped the new infections. A total of 272 patients recovered during the day, the department said in a release.
The number of recoveries in the city on Wednesday was 249 against 173 new cases, while this number from rural parts was 23 as against 15 new cases.
A total of 32,679 patients have recovered so far in the district.
Of the four deaths, three were reported from areas in Ahmedabad city, while one from rural areas.
The city’s west zone has 593 active cases, closely followed by the north-west zone with 574 cases, and south zone with 504 cases.
Out of the city’s seven zones, the north zone has reported the lowest number of 323 active cases so far, as per the latest COVID-19 bulletin released by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC).
In rural Ahmedabad, the recovery rate rose to 96 percent on Wednesday, with another 23 patients getting discharged, taking the total recovered cases in this part to 2,470 as against the total 2,583 cases reported so far, health officials said.
As per the latest update of the Ahmedabad Hospitals and Nursing Homes Association, a total of 1,197 beds are occupied out of 1,873 beds made available in the city’s 64 private hospitals requisitioned by the AMC for the treatment of COVID-19 patients.
The occupancy rate in the city’s private hospitals is around 64 percent.