7-yr-old with no Tablighi link among new Gujarat Coronavirus cases

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7-yr-old with no Tablighi Jamaat link among new Gujarat Coronavirus cases

Till Friday, total 95 persons were found positive in the state, including the seven-year-old among the new cases

Friday April 3, 2020 2:56 PM, ummid.com with inputs from IANS

Gandhinagar: A 78-year-old man from Godhra died on Friday due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) infection, taking the death toll in Gujarat to 8. The man from Panchmahals was admitted in the Savita hospital, Vadodara for the pandemic infection

Till Friday, total 95 persons were found positive in the state, including a seven-year-old among the new cases. None of them have any link with Tablighi Jamaat or foreign travel history.

Jayanti Ravi, Gujarat principal secretary, Health and Family welfare Department, told the media:, "The deceased patient was also comorbid with ailments like hypertension and lung disease. With this death, the total number of death due to Corona virus is 8 in the state. 7 more positive cases where found which are all from Ahmedabad."

"A female (60), a male (35), female (30) and a 7-year-old girl, all from a single family have been found positive from Bhnderi Pol in Kalupur area of Ahmedabad. All of them getting infected from a single source. A 68 year old male from Kalupur with a travel history to Delhi have also been found positive. All of them are admitted in the SVP Hospital. A male (62) and another male (17) both from Bapunagar admitted in the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital," she said.

Gujarat Districtwise COVID-19 + cases

This takes the total number of positive cases in Gujarat to 95. Maximum cases registered are in Ahmedabad -38, followed by Surat -12, Gandhinagar -11, Rajkot -10, Vadodara -9, Bhavnagar -7, Porbandar -3, Gir Somnath -2, and one each in Kutch, Mehsana and Panchmahals (the deceased).

"Out of the total patients admitted, the condition of 75 is stable and only 2 are critical, who are on ventilator. We have taken total 1,944 samples for testing out of which 1,847 have been found negative, 95 positive and 2 are pending," added Ravi.

"We are also planning to increase the number of testing for the virus, especially in the cluster found in the state under the Cluster Containment Strategy," added Ravi.

Govt ready for the worst situation

The secretary also said that even though the situation did not demand and there was adequate stock of ventilators in the state, the administration was preparing itself for the worst situation and procedures were on the way for that.

"We have placed an order to procure 150 ventilators and planning is going on for procuring 1,000 ventilators. Yesterday we received 43 ventilators from the central government under the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) to be set up at Rajkot. The union government has given the permission to utilise them in special COVID-19 hospitals set-up across the state," added Ravi.

"The total number of quarantined in the state is 16,015, where 14,868 are home quarantined, 880 in government facilities and 267 in private facilities. Total 418 FIR have been filed for violation of Quarantine in the state," added Ravi.

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