Hotspots changing: Surat sees rise in Covid-19 cases

AHMEDABAD: The pattern of the spread of Covid-19 has undergone a major shift in Gujarat, comparative figures for the past ten days show. Comparing the number of new cases from June 10 to 19 and 20 to 29, indicate that the share of Ahmedabad district has gone down from 64% to 42.2% whereas in deaths of Covid-19 patients, the district’s share went down from 75% to 65%.
Surat’s share of cases on the other hand rose from 14.5% to 28.8%, and of deaths from 10.5% to 18.2%.Vadodara’s share remained the same, accounting for 8% of cases and it did not report any death in the past 10 days.

Several other districts however have recorded an increase, with the share of new cases from other districts rising from 13.5% to 21.4% in the past 10 days. There was also a slight rise, from 13.2% to 16.8%, in their share of deaths.
Except Gandhinagar, which recorded a 9.3% dip, and Aravalli, which recorded the same number of cases (38) in both time periods, all other districts reported increases.
New cases in the past 24 hours included 236 from Ahmedabad, 206 from Surat, 50 from Vadodara and 20 from Patan.
The deaths included nine from Ahmedabad, four from Surat, two from Surendranagar and one each from Banaskantha, Rajkot, Kheda and Amreli. In the past four days, this was the second time Ahmedabad recorded a single-digit death toll.
Surat recorded the most discharges (187), followed by 171 in Ahmedabad, 26 in Vadodara and 10 in Anand.
Gujarat carried out 4,433 tests in the 24 hours, taking the total of tests conducted to 3.67 lakh.
As on Monday evening, Gujarat had 2.39 lakh persons under quarantine out whom 2.36 lakh are under home quarantine.