NE NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, SEPT 5
The COVID-19 tally in Gujarat rose to 1,03,006 with the addition of 1,311 cases on Saturday while 16 patients died, including six in Surat, taking the total toll to 3,094, the state health department said.
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At the same time, 1,148 patients were discharged, raising the number of recoveries to 83,546, the department said in its release.
With this, the state has achieved a recovery rate of 81.11 percent, it said.
72,751 coronavirus tests were conducted in Gujarat since Friday evening at the rate of 1,119.24 tests per day per million population, it said.
A total of 27,08,120 samples have been tested in the state so far.
Of the 16 fatalities, six deaths occurred in Surat, three in Rajkot, two each in Vadodara and Ahmedabad, while one person died each in Gandhinagar and Mehsana. One of the deceased patients was from another state, the department said.
At 277, Surat reported the highest number of new cases, followed by Ahmedabad with 167 cases. Rajkot added 145 more patients, it said.
Vadodara and Jamnagar also reported more than 100 cases, adding 119 and 111 patients, respectively.
Elsewhere, Bhavnagar reported 42 new cases, Gandhinagar 35, Panchmahal 33, Banaskantha 32, Junagadh 30, Amreli and Morbi 28 each, Bharuch 25, Kutch and Surendranagar 20 each, Sabarkantha 19, Mehsana 18, Dahod and Patan 17 each, Devbhumi Dwarka 15, Gir Somnath 14, etc.
The state now has 16,366 active cases, it said.
Gujarat COVID-19 figures are as follows: Positive cases 1,03,006, new cases 1,311, deaths 3,094, discharged 83,546, active cases 16,366 and people tested so far 27,08,120.
277 new cases in Surat, six deaths
Surat reported 277 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, the highest in Gujarat, the state health department said.
The tally of cases in the district thus rose to 22,310.
With six fatalities, the death toll in the district reached 889, the department said in its release.
Out of 277 cases, Surat city reported 185 new cases, while the rural parts reported 92.
Also, while Surat city reported two deaths, four deaths were reported from the rural parts.
The district also saw the highest number of recoveries in the state during the day with 388 patients getting discharged.
Surat’s tally of 22,310 coronavirus cases is the second biggest after Ahmedabad which has so far reported 32,351 cases.
But Surat remains the worst affected district in terms of fresh cases, with the daily count exceeding 250.
167 new cases in Ahmedabad; tally 32,351
Ahmedabad reported 167 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, raising the tally in the district to 32,351, the Gujarat health department said.
With two fatalities, the COVID-19 death toll in the district rose 1,747, it said.
78 patients recovered, raising the number of discharged patients to 26,771.
151 new cases were reported in Ahmedabad city, and 16 in the rural parts. Both the fatalities were from the city, the health department said in its release.
Ahmedabad city reported 64 recoveries and the rural parts 14, it said.
Out of 1,410 beds in private hospitals requisitioned by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation for the treatment of COVID-19 patients, 1,006 were occupied, as per a report shared by the Ahmedabad Hospitals and Nursing Homes Association.
With 16 new cases, rural parts of Ahmedabad have so far reported a total 1,893 cases, out of which 1,746 patients, or 92 percent, have recovered, officials said.
