by: Navjeevan Express

Gujarat: COVID-19 cases rise by 1,101 to 63,575; 22 die in 24 hours

NE NEWS SERVICE

GANDHINAGAR, AUG 2

Gujarat reported 1,101 new coronavirus positive cases on Sunday, which pushed the overall tally of the state to 63,575, the state health department said.

With 22 more people succumbing to the infection, the toll mounted to 2,487, it said.

Of the total 22 deaths, Surat reported 12, Ahmedabad, Vadodara, and Bhvanagar reported two each while Devbhoomi Dwarka, Gandhinagar, Patan, and Rajkot one each.

The new cases include 237 from Surat, 155 from Ahmedabad, 96 from Vadodara, and 94 from Rajkot.

A total of 805 patients got discharged in 24 hours, taking the total to 46,587.

237 COVID-19 cases added in Surat, 207 recover; 12 die

Surat reported 237 new coronavirus positive cases on Sunday, which pushed the overall tally of the district to 14,162, the state health department said.

With the death of 12 patients, the highest for any district in the state on Sunday, the district’s toll reached 621.

Seven of the fatalities were reported in Surat city and five in rural parts, it said.

A total of 9,320 patients have recovered from the infection in Surat so far, with the addition of 207 recoveries on Sunday.

Chief Minister Vijay Rupani visited Surat on Sunday to take stock of the preparedness to tackle coronavirus and said the district is better equipped to deal with the pandemic as compared to what it was a month ago.

Surat city reported 209 new cases on Sunday, while the rural parts of the district reported 28 new cases.

As many as 134 patients recovered in Surat city, and 73 in the rural parts of the district, the department said.

Rupani said that in the last one month since his last visit to Surat, the growth rate of positive cases has reduced to 2 percent from 4 percent, and the recovery rate has improved to around 70 percent.

“This is a good sign for Surat. The lower rate reflects an improvement in condition,” he said.

The chief minister said that Surat has done good work in terms of plasma therapy with more than 500 recovered patients donating their plasma so far, thereby reducing the death rate.

“In Surat, we have been successful in controlling the infection and succeeded in bringing the situation under control. When we last visited Surat (on July 4), 130 tests per million was being conducted here, which has increased 1,200 per million tests,” he said.

“In Gujarat, we are doing 26,000 tests a day as compared to around 5,000 earlier. We are going ahead by increasing the number of tests. Recovery rate in Surat rose from 60 percent to 70 percent,” he told reporters here.

Ruani said that from the 4,856 beds for COVID-19 patients available in the district a month ago, the number has nearly increased to 7,030.

“Whatever the number of new cases, we have arranged enough beds to ensure that all the needy patients get the bed,” he said.

The city administration has also made arrangements for 121 ”Dhanvantari Raths”, to help people in need of essential health care services, he said.

The government has also provided 128 ventilators to private hospitals for the treatment of coronavirus, the first in the state, and there is so far no more demand for Tocilizumab and Ramdesivir medicines among patients as all the demands have been met, he said.

Rupani added that the government has enough stock of these drugs to meet the demand.

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Ahmedabad records two COVID-19 deaths after over 100 days

The number of COVID-19 cases in Ahmedabad district of Gujarat rose by 155 to 26,818 on Sunday, the state health department said.

With two more people succumbing to the infection, which is one of the lowest since April 12, the toll mounted to 1,603, it said.

A total of 107 patients were discharged during the day, raising the number of recovered cases to 21,692.

Both the deaths were reported from Ahmedabad municipal limits, it said.

The number of fatalities has been steadily on a decline over a month.

While the number of fatalities dropped below 20 a day in the third week of June, they declined further to 10 in a day in the first week of July, the department said.

Rural parts of Ahmedabad have reported a total 1,318 coronavirus positive cases, out of which 1,128 patients have recovered, officials said.