by: Navjeevan Express

Gujarat: COVID-19 tally zooms past 27,000-mark; deaths 1,664

NE NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, JUNE 21


With Gujarat reporting 580 new coronavirus positive cases on Sunday, the number of patients in the state crossed the 27,000-mark, the health department said.


The state tally now stands at 27,317, it said.
Gujarat also reported death of 25 coronavirus patients, taking the fatality count to 1,664, it said.


As 655 patients were discharged on Sunday, the tally of recovered cases went up to 19,357, the department added.
The number of active COVID-19 cases in the state is now 6,296, of which 59 patients are on ventilators, while the condition all others is stable.


Ahmedabad alone reported 273 of the total 580 new cases, while there were 176 cases in Surat, its highest single-day spike. These two districts alone accounted for 449 of the total number of new cases in the state on Sunday.
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With this, the count of coronavirus positive cases in Ahmedabad rose to 18,837, and in Surat, it rose to 3,233. Vadodara’s tally went up to 1,854 with 41 new cases on Sunday.
Out of 21 other districts that recorded new cases during the day, Gandhinagar reported 15, Bharuch 10, Aravalli nine, Bhavnagar and Jamnagar eight each, among others.


Also, out of a total 25 patients who died in the state on the day, 20 succumbed to the infection in Ahmedabad, three in Surat, and one each in Aravalli and Chhota Udepur.
The number of COVID-19 victims in Ahmedabad district rose to 1,332.
Out of 655 recoveries reported Sunday, Ahmedabad reported 427, Surat 131 and Vadodara 40.


With this, the total number of discharged patients in Ahmedabad rose to 13,612.
The number of active COVID-19 cases in Gujarat is now 6,296, out of which 59 patients are on ventilators, while the condition of 6,237 others is stable.
A total of 3,24,874 samples were tested, of which 27,317 have turned positive.


Ahmedabad district cases up by 273 to 18,837; death toll 1,332
The number of coronavirus cases in Ahmedabad district of Gujarat rose by 273 to 18,837 on Sunday while the death toll increased by 20 to 1,332, state health department said.
With 427 patients being discharged from hospitals in the day, the count of the recovered cases in the district went up to 13,612, it said.


Ahmedabad district now accounts for the highest 1,332 of the total 1,664 COVID-19 fatalities in Gujarat and 13,612 of the cumulative 27,317 cases.
As per Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s (AMC) COVID bulletin issued earlier in the day, the civic areas have so far reported 17,873 coronavirus cases.
The number of active cases in Ahmedabad stands at 3,561 while the death toll is 1,282. A total of 13,030 patients have recovered from the infection, it stated.


In parts of Ahmedabad district under panchayat, 13 new cases were reported, as per data.
The district panchayat area now has 123 active cases.
A COVID-19 patient has died of the disease in the district.
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