24 hours: 1,101 coronavirus cases, 23 deaths in Gujarat

AHMEDABAD: Gujarat in 24 hours ending 5pm on Saturday recorded 1,101 Covid-19 cases, taking the tally to 69,986. The state touched the 1,100-plus daily cases level again after five days. The cases included 226 from Surat, 158 from Ahmedabad, 113 from Vadodara, and 93 from Rajkot.
The state also recorded 23 deaths, taking the toll to 2,629. The deaths include 10 from Surat, five from Ahmedabad, two each from Junagadh, Kutch and Vadodara, and one each from Amreli and Gandhinagar.
With the update on Saturday, Surat district crossed 15,000 cumulative Covid cases, at 15,003.The district had added 226 cases in 24 hours — including 182 from the city and 44 from the rest of the district.
An analysis of the cases reveals that the district took 18 days to reach from 10,000 to 15,000 cases. Incidentally, Ahmedabad had also taken the same number of days in May and June to add 5,000 positive cases at the average of 278 daily cases.
A total of 1,135 patients were discharged in 24 hours, taking the total to 52,827. The discharges include 549 from Surat, 121 from Ahmedabad, 67 from Vadodara, and 61 from Porbandar. It was one of the few days for Gujarat in which the number of discharged patients was higher than the number of new cases.
Now Gujatat’s number of active patients has dipped to 14,530, which consists of 20.8% of the total cases. The shares of discharged and deceased patients are 75.5% and 3.7% respectively.
Gujarat carried out 26,272 tests in 24 hours, taking the total to 9.56 lakh. The state health department said that the per day per million testing has reached 404. As on Saturday evening, Gujarat has 4.8 lakh persons under quarantine.