NE NEWS SERVICE
GANDHINAGAR, MAY 10
Despite the recovery rate of coronavirus-hit doubling in the last 10 days, Gujarat on Sunday reported 398 new COVID-19 cases and 21 deaths, including 18 from Ahmedabad alone, taking the total case count to 8,195 and the number of fatalities to 493, a state Health Department official said.
જિલ્લા વહીવટી તંત્ર દ્વારા #ભિલોડા તાલુકાના #જાબચિતરિયા અને #બ્રહ્મપુરી ગામમાં આરોગ્ય વિભાગની ટીમ દ્વારા ડોર ટુ ડોર સર્વેની કામગીરી કરવામાં આવી તથા સાવચેતી ભાગરૂપે ગામને સેનેટાઇઝ કરવામાં આવ્યું.@pkumarias @CMOGuj @InfoGujarat @GujHFWDept @PS_HFWD_GUJ pic.twitter.com/cjLATVd7EB
— Collector & District Magistrate, Arvalli (@CollectorArvali) May 10, 2020
The state has also reported a sharp jump in the recovery of COVID-19 patients, with 454 patients getting discharged from hospitals on Sunday, based on the revised discharge policy.
The total number of the recovered patients now stands at 2,545, the official said, adding that Gujarat has a higher discharge rate compared to Punjab, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Odisha, Delhi, and Chandigarh.
Many persons are returning 2 #GirSomnath with official passes issued by their districts
After Health screening at Quarantine Facilities,those with no symptoms are Home Quarantined
We are putting stickers on their houses
If anyone violates Quarantine,pls inform local authorities pic.twitter.com/kMyr7cKtQa— Collector Gir Somnath (@collectorgirsom) May 10, 2020
Principal Secretary, Health and Family Welfare, Jayanti Ravi, in one of her shortest virtual addresses to the media, claimed that as against the recovery rate that was 15.58 percent on May 1, the recovery rate on Sunday was 32.64 percent.
In her brief address, which barely lasted for three minutes, she twice referred to the guidance given by Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and his deputy Nitin Patel, who is also the health minister. She said that this was possible because of the team work, and also thanked the police force.
નાની-મોટી દુકાનોના માલિક, સુપર માર્કેટ સંચાલકો તથા કર્મચારીઓ તેમજ ફેરિયા ભાઈ- બહેનો માટે મેડિકલ સ્ક્રીનીંગ કરવાનું ફરજિયાત
વિક્રેતાઓએ અ.મ્યુ.કો. ની સંબંધિત વોર્ડ ઓફિસમાં સ્ક્રિનીંગ કરાવીને 'હેલ્થ સ્ક્રિનીંગ કાર્ડ' મેળવવાનું રહેશે@drrajivguptaias @Mukeshias @ibijalpatel pic.twitter.com/i9rqwVtEwb
— Amdavad Municipal Corporation (@AmdavadAMC) May 10, 2020
Of the 21 deaths, 18 were from Ahmedabad, and one each from Anand, Bhavnagar, and Surat, said Principal Secretary (Health) Jayanti Ravi.
“Thirteen of 21 deceased were suffering from comorbid conditions,” she said.
While Ahmedabad reported 278 new cases, Surat reported 41 cases, Vadodara 25 and Gandhinagar 10 of the total 17 districts that have reported fresh cases on Sunday, the official added.
Total COVID-19 cases in Ahmedabad district went up to 5,818.
Explaining the rise in the number of the recovered patients, Ravi said that asymptomatic cases or those having mild symptoms can be discharged from hospitals after ten days without conducting any tests, as per the revised discharged policy.
કોરોનાની મહામારીમાં ફેક ન્યૂઝથી પણ સોશિયલ ડિસ્ટનસીંગ જાળવો, ફેક ન્યૂઝનું સંક્રમણ અટકાવો.#AhmedabadPolice#AmdavadFightsCorona pic.twitter.com/YYUj87zpCf
— Ahmedabad Police અમદાવાદ પોલીસ (@AhmedabadPolice) May 10, 2020
“As many as 454 patients recovered and discharged from state hospitals on Sunday. The patient discharge rate in Gujarat, which was 15.58 percent on May 1, has more than doubled to 32.64 percent in just nine days,” said Ravi.
Ravi said Gujarat now has 5,157 active cases, 31 of whom are on ventilator and in serious condition, whereas others are stable.
Gujarat COVID-19 figures are as follows: Positive cases 8,195, new cases 398, deaths 493, number of discharged people 2,545, active cases 5,157 and people tested so far 1,13,493.
Ahmedabad dist cases reach 5,818; deaths 381
The COVID-19 cases in Ahmedabad district of Gujarat jumped to 5,818 after 278 people tested positive for the infection on Sunday alone, an official of the state health department said.
Of the 21 coronavirus patients who died in the state on Sunday, 18 were from Ahmedabad district, the official said.
કોરોનાના કહેર વચ્ચે નિયમિત લોહીની જરૂરવાળા દર્દીઓ, જેવા કે, થેલેસેમિયા, સિકલસેલ એનીમિયા, કેન્સર, હિમોફિલિયા અને સગર્ભા બહેનોની જિંદગી બચાવવા માટે સમયસર રક્ત મળી રહે તે માટે વલસાડ રક્તદાન કેન્દ્ર લોકડાઉનમાં પણ ૪પ દિવસથી સતત સેવાભાવી સ્ટાફના સથવારે ખડેપગે ૨૪ કલાક કાર્યરત… pic.twitter.com/kh9QEgJwxr
— Gujarat Information (@InfoGujarat) May 10, 2020
With this, the death toll in the district has gone up to 381.
A total of 266 patients were discharged from Ahmedabad city hospitals on Sunday, taking the number of recovered patients in the district to 1,373, the official said.
With a majority of the COVID-19 cases were reported in Ahmedabad city, mainly in areas under Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) limits, the civic body had recently ordered closure of all the shops except those selling milk and medicine from May 7 to May 15.
We all Doctors are together in this fight against #COVID19 : Dr. Mona Desai, Ahmedabad Medical Association@drrajivguptaias @Mukeshias @ibijalpatel
#AmdavadFightsCorona #AmdavadAMC pic.twitter.com/TISeQiYwdq— Amdavad Municipal Corporation (@AmdavadAMC) May 10, 2020
334 ‘super-spreaders’ found in Ahmedabad
As many as 334 coronaviruses ”super-spreaders” have been found in Ahmedabad so far, and it is the main reason for the order to keep shops of groceries and vegetables closed till May 15, officials said on Sunday.
”Super-spreaders” are the infectious disease carriers who could transmit the pathogen to a large number of people.
Add. Chief Secretary Shri @pkumarias દ્વારા કલેક્ટર કચેરી ખાતે પ્રેઝન્ટેશનના માધ્યમથી વડોદરામાં કોવિદ-19નો પ્રભાવ ઘટાડવા માટે શહેર – જિલ્લા પ્રશાસનના સંકલિત પ્રયાસોની વિગતવાર સમીક્ષા કરવામાં આવી હતી. #GujaratFightsCovid19 @vijayrupanibjp @DARPG_GoI@InfoGujarat pic.twitter.com/Z0cXlWEiC9
— Collector & DM Vadodara (@CollectorVad) May 10, 2020
They could be vegetable vendors, grocery and milk shop owners, petrol pump attendants, or garbage collectors, who by the nature of their job carry the risk of getting infected and infecting others.
An official here said they believe there are around 14,000 high-risk potential super-spreaders in the city, and they have decided to screen all of them in the next three days.
A similar exercise has also been undertaken in the suburbs and rural areas of the district, he said.
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) started targeting such people from April 20 as part of active surveillance, and has so far collected 3,817 samples of such suspects, out of whom 334 turned out to be positive, the official said.
After a provision store owner in Vejalpur area here tested positive for coronavirus on Saturday, all customers who visited the store over the last 15 days to make purchases were asked to remain home quarantined, the official said.
In Dholka town on Ahmedabad outskirts, a watermelon vendor was found coronavirus positive during a similar screening exercise and was identified as a super-spreader.
Nearly 96 people, who were his primary and secondary contacts, mostly family members, fellow vendors, and regular customers, were quarantined. Of them, 12 tested positive for COVID-19, district development officer Arun Mahesh Babu said.
Additional Chief Secretary Rajiv Gupta, appointed the for supervision, monitoring and coordination of works related to coronavirus in the city, said nearly 2,000 suspected super-spreaders were screened in two days after the AMC ordered the closure of all shops, except milk and medicines, in the city for a week from May 7.
“All the suspects will be tested by Wednesday,” the official said.
The city has been placed under complete lockdown till that time.
The AMC has also made it mandatory for owners and staff of shops and supermarkets to get their medical screening done by approaching their respective wards, and obtain ”health screening cards” based on test results.
Both the Ahmedabad city and district administrations have undertaken the exercise to screen all super-spreaders to ensure they do not carry the risk of transmission before they go out to operate in the market, and also to regulate the number of such vendors, officials said.
