Gujarat Corona rate 700 per day, situation in Surat remains worrisome

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Gujarat Corona rate 700 per day, situation in Surat remains worrisome

Gujarat, at 5.32 per cent, has one of the highest mortality rate for corona in the country

Monday July 6, 2020 11:56 PM, IANS

Gandhinagar: Gujarat saw yet another highest spike of Covid-19 cases as 735 were detected on Monday, taking its tally to 36,858, while the death toll has reached 1,962.

It has not even been a week into July, but the state has posted an average of around 700 cases daily to register 4,215 cases already.

Gujarat Covid-19 latest update

Surat, with 241 cases or roughly a third of the total, has now emerged as the new hotspot for Corona in the state and Ahmedabad's positive cases - 183 on Monday - are on the declining trend.

Ahmedabad was followed by Vadodara with 65, Bhavnagar with 35, Banaskantha with 24, Rajkot with 21, Bharuch with 18, Gandhinagar with 17, Junagadh with 15, Valsad with 13, Mehsana with 12, Kutch with 11, Panchmahals, Sabarkantha and Navsari with eight each.

On the other hand Jamnagar and Amreli reported seven cases each, Surendranagar and Dahod five each, Morbi and Tapi four each, Patan and Chotta Udepur three each, Aravalli, Mahisagar, Botad and Gir-Somnath two each while Anand has reported one corona case Monday.

Districtwise Corona Deaths Gujarat

There were 17 deaths on Monday with Ahmedabad accounting for seven, Surat for six, while two died in Aravalli and one each in Banaskantha and Kheda.

Of the total deaths, 1,494 have occurred in Ahmedabad, 189 have died in Surat, 53 in Vadodara, 32 in Gandhinagar, 20 in Aravalli, 17 in Patan, 16 in Panchmahals, 13 deaths each in Bhavnagar, Anand and Mehsana, 12 each in Rajkot, Kheda and Banaskantha and 10 in Bharuch.

Gujarat Corona mortality rate

Gujarat, at 5.32 per cent, has one of the highest mortality rate for corona in the country.

On Monday, the health authorities carried out highest number of RT-PCR tests, at 6,340, taking the total to 4,18,464. A total of 423 patients were discharged on Monday. and with this, the total has reached 26,323.

The state has 8,573 active cases, out of which the condition of 8,504 is stable, and 69 critical patients are still on ventilator.

There are 2,72,664 people quarantined in the state - 2,69,581 at home and 3,083 in government facilities.

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