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AHMEDABAD, AUG 5
With 1,073 new coronavirus positive cases, Gujarat’s COVID-19 tally crossed the 66,000- mark on Wednesday, the state health department said.
The case count in the state is 66,777 now, it said.
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With the death of 23 COVID-19 patients during the day, the number of deceased went up to 2,557, the department said.
As many as 1,046 patients were discharged on Wednesday, which took the tally of recovered cases to 49,405.
Surat continued to report the highest number of cases in the state with the addition of 237 ones on Wednesday that took the district count to 14,902.
Ahmedabad followed Surat with 161 new cases, which pushed its tally to 27,283.
Among other districts, Vadodara reported 115 new cases, Rajkot80, Bhavnagar 47, Jamnagar 46, Amreli 30, Kutch and Gandhinagar 27 each, Junagadh 25, Mehsana and Morbi 24 each, Surendranagar 22, Bharuch and Bhavnagar 21 each, Dahod and Panchmahal 18 each, Porbandar 17, Botad and Kheda 14 each, and Banaskantha 13.
Surat reported six more deaths due to the virus, followed by Ahmedabad and Rajkot at five each, Junagadh and Vadodara two each, and Gandhinagar, Jamnagar, and Patan at one each.
Surat’s death toll rose to 649, while that of Ahmedabad to 1,617.
As per the state-wise comparative tally shared by the state health department, Gujarat stood at the 14th position in the country in terms of the single-day COVID-19 cases reported on Wednesday.
Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, West Bengal, Bihar, Telangana, Rajasthan, Odisha, and Kerala reported more number of new cases than Gujarat, it said.
As many as 24,374 samples were tested in the state in the last 24 hours, at the rate of 374.98 tests per day per million, the department said.
A total of 8,79,213 samples have been tested in the state so far, it said.
Gujarat’s COVID-19 figures are as follows: Positive cases 66,777, new cases 1,073, deaths 2,557, discharged 49,405, active cases 14,815 and people tested so far 8,79,213.
Surat records 237 new cases; 6 die, 218 recover
Surat reported 237 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, raising the tally in the south Gujarat district to 14,902, the state health department said.
Surat also reported six fatalities, taking the total COVID-19 deaths in the district to 649, it said here.
The district reported the highest number of new cases in Gujarat, which recorded 1,073 infections on Wednesday.
With half-a-dozen deaths, the number of COVID-19 fatalities in Surat was also the highest in the state, which reported 23 deaths in the last 24 hours.
Surat city reported 187 new cases and the rural parts of the district 50.
As per the health department, the number of recovered cases in Surat rose to 9,946 with 218 more patients getting discharged on Wednesday – 138 in the city and 80 in the rural parts of the district.
161 new coronavirus cases in Ahmedabad, five deaths
The number of coronavirus cases in Ahmedabad district rose to 27,283 with 161 new patients coming to light on Wednesday, the Gujarat health department said.
The COVID-19 death toll in the district rose to 1,617 with five new fatalities, it said.
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At the same time, the number of recovered cases rose to 22,035 with 127 more patients getting discharged from hospitals, it said.
Ahmedabad city reported 143 new cases while the rural parts of the district reported 18 new cases. All five deaths were reported from the city, the department said.
In its latest revision of micro-containment areas in the city, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) denotified 22 such areas from the list but added another 14, taking the number to 251.
An intensive hose-to-house survey will be carried out in the new localities and samples of suspected patients will be collected, the AMC said.
The area under the AMC jurisdiction has reported a notable drop in the number of daily cases.
As per the AMC’s COVID-19 bulletin released on Wednesday afternoon, the number of recovered cases is 21,229, which is 82 percent of the total cases, while the death toll, at 1,517, is 6.1 percent of the total.
Rural areas of the district have 100 active cases now with 18 new cases and 25 recoveries. The total number of coronavirus cases in rural areas is 1,363.
