by: Navjeevan Express

Gujarat: COVID-19 tally up by 361 to 14,829; 27 more die, taking count to 915

NE NEWS SERVICE

GANDHINAGAR, MAY 26

Gujarat has reported 361 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours and 27 deaths, taking the total case count to 14,829 and fatalities to 915, a health official said on Tuesday.

The state has been reporting over 20 deaths daily from the beginning of the month. Another 27 patients succumbed to the virus on Tuesday, out of which Ahmedabad had the highest casualties, 23. A patient each from Kheda, Panchmahals, Patan, and Surat also died on Tuesday.

A total of 701 people, out of the total 915, have succumbed to the virus during May. To date, out of the total deaths, 745 people have died in Ahmedabad alone (over 81%), followed by Surat (63), Vadodara (35), Gandhinagar (13) Anand (10), Bhavnagar (8) and in Panchmahals (6).

On Tuesday, a total of 361 corona positive cases were detected in the state. Ahmedabad had the maximum number of cases with 251. Ahmedabad was followed by Surat 36, Vadodara 31, Sabarkantha 8, Gandhinagar 7, Jamnagar 5, Banaskantha, Mahisagar and Valsad with 3 each, Bhavnagar, Kutch, Aravalli and Navsari with 2 each and Junagadh, Panchmahals, Mahesana, Amreli, Patan and Rajkot with one positive case each.

On Tuesday, a total of 503 patients were discharged. So far, 7,137 patients have been discharged in the state. The recovery rate of Gujarat has improved to 48.13%.

Now nearing the 15 thousand mark, the total number of positive cases in Gujarat has reached 14,829. Ahmedabad continued to lead the state with maximum positive cases 10,841, followed by Surat 1,387, Vadodara 885, Gandhinagar 232, Bhavnagar 118, Mahesana 103, Banaskantha 102, Aravalli 101, Sabarkantha 97, Rajkot 94, Anand 93, Mahisagar 91, Panchmahals 78, Patan 73, Kutch 66, Kheda 63, Botad 57 and Jamnagar with 52 cases.

Health authorities have so far carried out a total of 1,89,313 tests in the state, out of which 14,829 have been found positive.

There are 6,778 active cases in the state. The state health authorities have stopped giving the figures of the number of critical patients who are on ventilators after declaring 109 critical patients on ventilator on Monday.

Right now, there are over 3 lakh people quarantined in the state.

Gujarat COVID-19 figures are as follows: Positive cases 14,829, new cases 361, deaths 915, discharged 7,137, active cases 6,777 and people tested so far 1,89,313.

Four employees of pharma firms test positive in Ahmedabad

At least three employees of Intas Pharmaceuticals Limited and a manager working with Zydus Cadila Healthcare Limited have tested positive for coronavirus in Gujarat”s Ahmedabad district, an official said on Tuesday.

Plants of both these major pharma companies are located on Sarkhej-Bavla Highway on the outskirts of the city.

“Three employees of Intas Pharmaceuticals and a manager working at Zydus Cadila plant have tested positive for coronavirus,” chief district health officer Satish Makwana said in a statement.

At least three members of the manager’s family, who live in Bopal area, have also contracted the infection, he said.

In a statement, Intas Pharmaceuticals confirmed that three of its employees had tested positive for COVID-19 and it had also finished contact tracing of those infected.

Other employees of the plant have been asked to remain under home quarantine, the statement read.

Earlier this month, 26 employees of Cadila Pharma tested positive for the deadly infection and three of them succumbed to it last week.