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AHMEDABAD, JUNE 23
Gujarat on Tuesday reported 549 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total count to 28,429 while Ahmedabad has reported 19,386 cases, state health department said.
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With 26 more fatalities, the death toll has mounted to 1,711.
The number of recovered cases rose to 20,521 with 604 more patients getting discharged in the day, it said.
Gujarat now has 6,197 active cases, of which the condition of 62 patients is critical.
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A total of 3,34,326 samples have been tested so far, it said.
26 corona deaths take Gujarat’s total toll to 1,711, active cases 6,197
Gujarat now has 6,197 active cases, of which the condition of 6,135 patients is stable, whereas 62 critical patients are still on ventilators.
घर पर बना पुन: उपयोग वाला फेस कवर/मास्क पहनने के सही तरीका के बारे में जानें। इस जानकारी को साझा करें और अपनी सुरक्षा के लिए हमारी मदद करें। बदलकर अपना व्यवहार, करें कोरोना पर वार।#HealthForAll #SwasthaBharat #CoronaOutbreak #Unlock1 #TogetherAgainstCovid19 pic.twitter.com/9HxZdg9VLU
— Gujarat Information (@InfoGujarat) June 23, 2020
On Tuesday, the health authorities carried out 4,983 RT-PCR tests. Of the new cases, 235 were detected in Ahmedabad (42.80%), followed by Surat at 175 (Sunday’s total 176), Vadodara 42, Jamnagar 12, Bharuch 11, Gandhinagar 10, Bhavnagar 8, Narmada 6, Mahesana 5, Mahisagar, Panchmahals, Kutch, Valsad and Navsari 4 each, Gir-Somnath, Surendranagar and from other states 3 each, Sabarkantha, Anand, Patan, Chotta Udepur, Botad and Rajkot 2 each, and Aravalli, Kheda, Dahod and Amreli one case each.
Of Tuesday”s 26 deaths, 15 were reported in Ahmedabad, 6 in Surat, and one patient each in Dwarka, Amreli and Patan.
જિલ્લાના ૩૬ આયુર્વેદિક દવાખાના, સયાજી આયુર્વેદ નર્સરી સહિતની જગ્યાએથી આ રોપાઓનું વિતરણ કરવામાં આવશે. ડોક્ટર્સ દ્વારા લોકોને ઔષધિય રોપાનું મહત્વ અને તેની ઉપયોગિતા વિશે પણ જાણકારી આપવામાં આવશે.@vijayrupanibjp @pkumarias @GujForestDept @InfoGujarat
— Collector & DM Vadodara (@CollectorVad) June 23, 2020
Despite Ahmedabad’s corona cases share down to 68.19% from around 80%, the city’s share in total death toll has now come down to 79.83% from around 81%. As many as 673 of the total 1,711 casualties were reported in June.
Of the Gujarat’s total deaths, 1,366 were reported in Ahmedabad, followed by 134 in Surat, 49 in Vadodara, 25 in Gandhinagar, 15 each in Aravalli and Panchmahals, 13 each in Bhavnagar and Anand, 12 in Patan, 10 in Mahesana, and 8 in Banaskantha. Gujarat has one of the highest mortality rate for corona in the country at 6.01%.
On Tuesday, 604 patients were discharged, taking the total to 20,521 cured patients.
कोरोना महामारी के इस दौर में छात्र निराश, परेशान और उदास हैं, ऐसे में वे परीक्षा में अपना पूर्ण ध्यान केंद्रित नहीं कर पा रहे हैं। पर्याप्त संसाधन ना होने कारण उनकी तैयारी सही तरीके नहीं हो पा रही है।#NoExamsInCovid @CMOGuj @imBhupendrasinh pic.twitter.com/1am35e1Hu9
— Dr.Manish Doshi (@drmanishdoshi) June 22, 2020
Ahmedabad continues to lead the state with maximum 19,386 positive cases, followed by Surat 3,540, Vadodara 1,945, Gandhinagar 580, Mahesana 220, Bhavnagar 208, Rajkot 188, Aravalli 177, Banaskantha 167, Bharuch 162, Anand 158, Sabarkantha 155, Patan 149, Panchmahals and Jamnagar 144 each, Mahisagar 130, Kheda 122, Kutch 114, Surendranagar 95, Botad 76, Valsad 75, Junagadh 66, Narmada 59, Gir-Somnath 58, Dahod, Navsari and patients from other states 53 each.
Of the 3,34,326 RT-PCR tests in the state, 3,05,897 tested corona negative.
As many as 2,28,177 people are quarantined in the state, including 2,24,113 in-home quarantine and 4,064 in government facilities.
Gujarat COVID-19 figures are as follows: Positive cases 28,429, new cases 549, deaths 1,711, discharged 20,521, active cases 6,197 and people tested so far 3,34,326.
Ahmedabad count up by 235 to 19,386; 15 more die
The number of COVID-19 cases in Ahmedabad mounted by 235 to 19,386 on Tuesday, state Health department said.
With 15 more persons succumbing to the viral infection, the death toll went up to 1,363, it said.
While 230 of the 235 cases were reported from the Ahmedabad city municipal limits, five cases were reported from part of the district.
13 of the 15 fatalities were reported from the city limits and two in other parts of Ahmedabad district, it said.
With 381 more people getting discharged in the day, the number of the recovered cases in the district rose to 14,394.
Cong leader demands coronavirus testing lab in Amreli
The Leader of Opposition in Gujarat Assembly Paresh Dhanani on Tuesday wrote to Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel demanding a coronavirus testing lab in Amreli district as cases were rising there.
In the letter, senior Congress leader Dhanani said 45 COVID-19 cases had been reported in Amreli in a short time and there was no laboratory to test for the infection.
“Since there is no lab in the entire district, samples are being sent to other districts for tests and reports arrive after almost 24 or in some case 48 hours. In many cases, patients have died before test results came in,” Dhanani, who represents Amreli Assembly seat, said.
“Cases are on the rise in Amreli and across Gujarat after several restrictions were lifted under ”unlock 1”. In this scenario, I urge you to release funds on an urgent basis to buy testing equipment and to set up a COVID-19 laboratory in Amreli,” Dhanani said in the letter to Patel, who is also state health minister.
Gujarat gets 175 ‘Made in India’ ventilators
Nearly 3,000 of the 50,000 ‘Made in India’ ventilators sanctioned under the PM CARES fund to help COVID-19 patients have been manufactured and over 1,300 have been delivered to various states, an official statement said on Tuesday.
On May 14, the PM CARES Fund Trust had decided to allocate Rs 3,100 crore for the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and the amount was to be used, among other things, to purchase ventilators and caring for migrant workers.
Out of the Rs 3,100 crore, nearly Rs 2,000 crore was earmarked for the purchase of 50,000 ‘Made in India’ ventilators. So far 2,923 ventilators have been manufactured, out of which 1,340 ventilators have already been delivered to the States/UTs,” the statement said.
By the end of this month, an additional 14,000 ventilators will be delivered to all the states and UTs. The prominent recipients include Maharashtra (275), Delhi (275), Gujarat (175), Bihar (100), Karnataka (90), Rajasthan (75), it said.
Out of the 50,000 ventilators, 30,000 are being manufactured by the Bharat Electronics Ltd, a government undertaking. The remaining 20,000 ventilators are being manufactured by AgVa Healthcare (10,000), AMTZ Basic (5650), AMTZ High End (4000) and Allied Medical (350), the statement said.
Referring to the welfare of migrant workers, it said Rs 1000 crore has already been released to states and UTs for welfare of the migrant labourers.
Several special trains have ferried lakhs of migrant workers back to their home states as they were unwilling to stay in cities citing an uncertain future amid the pandemic. Several of them have walked hundreds of kilometres to return to their native place.
The distribution of funds is based on the weightage of population of the state as per the 2011 Census “50 per cent weightage, number of positive COVID-19 cases as on date” 40 per cent weightage and equal share — 10 per cent weightage for all states to ensure basic minimum sum for all. The funds were to be used for arranging accommodation, food, medical treatment and transportation of migrants.
According to the statement, the main recipients of the grant are Maharashtra (Rs 181 crore), Uttar Pradesh (Rs 103 crore), Tamil Nadu (Rs 83 crore), Gujarat (Rs 66 crore), Delhi (Rs 55 crore), West Bengal (Rs 53 crore), Bihar (Rs 51 crore), Madhya Pradesh (50 crore), Rajasthan (Rs 50 crore) and Karnataka (Rs 34 crore).
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced creation of the PM’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund (PM-CARES) where people can contribute to help the government fight against coronavirus and similar “distressing situations”.
The trust was formed on March 27 and is headed by the prime minister. The other ex-officio members of the trust are the defence minister, the home minister and the finance minister.
