AHMEDABAD: On Wednesday, Gujarat recorded 11 new positive cases, taking the total tally of Covid-19 cases in the state at 186. No new case was reported from Ahmedabad which is a national Covid-19 hotspot.
Total 16 people have lost their lives to coronavirus till Tuesday. Analysis of the data show that compared to 63% of the Covid-19 fatalities in India in above 60 years age group, Gujarat has a slightly different number – half of its deaths are in that the age bracket whereas 37.5% or 6 are in 41-60 years age group.
Of the 11 fresh Covid-19 cases, six are from Vadodara, four from Bhavnagar and one from Surat. All the cases are termed as local transmission by the state health department. Even as Ahmedabad did not report any fresh case, the walled city lockdown strategy was put in place by the authorities with health check-up of maximum population.
Jayanti Ravi, principal secretary (health & family welfare), said on Wednesday that despite the speeding up of sample taking and analysis, the sample-topositive cases rate has not increased to 5% so far. “Analysis of all the positive and death cases is being done. For example, we are yet to know from where the youngest Covid-19 victim – a 14-month-old child from Jamnagar – got the infection from. Result of the child’s parents is negative,” she said.
Nine-year-old girl from Indore tests +ve
Out of total death cases, only two are outside of 41-80 years age bracket . One is the 14-month infant while the oldest deceased was 85-year-old woman from Ahmedabad who had travel history to Saudi Arabia.
The analysis revealed that out of total 10 death cases, three were having international travel history – apart from the woman who returned from Saudi Arabia, two deceased from Vadodara had returned from a trip to Sri Lanka.
Other three cases, one each from Bhavnagar, Surat and Ahmedabad, the patients were found to have travel history, primarily to Ahmedabad. Ten remaining cases were identified as local transmission.
Ravi had mentioned earlier that all the cases of patients’ deaths were found to have co-morbidity – especially diabetes, lung disease and hypertension. Out of total, nine patients had diabetes, eight had hypertension, three had lung/ respiratory issues, one had cancer, one had cardiac issues and two had brain/ neurological disorders.
Meanwhile, a nine-year-old girl from Indore who had come to Dahod for the burial of a family member tested positive for Covid-19.
Dahod district collector Vijay Kharadi said that the girl had come to Dahod on Tuesday along with four other persons in an ambulance with the body of a family member.
Officials of the district administration were informed about the family who put them in a quarantine facility in the town and their samples were collected. The girl was tested positive while the others family members tested negative for Covid-19.
Kharadi said that the Indore district administration was informed about the case.
Total 16 people have lost their lives to coronavirus till Tuesday. Analysis of the data show that compared to 63% of the Covid-19 fatalities in India in above 60 years age group, Gujarat has a slightly different number – half of its deaths are in that the age bracket whereas 37.5% or 6 are in 41-60 years age group.
Of the 11 fresh Covid-19 cases, six are from Vadodara, four from Bhavnagar and one from Surat. All the cases are termed as local transmission by the state health department. Even as Ahmedabad did not report any fresh case, the walled city lockdown strategy was put in place by the authorities with health check-up of maximum population.
Jayanti Ravi, principal secretary (health & family welfare), said on Wednesday that despite the speeding up of sample taking and analysis, the sample-topositive cases rate has not increased to 5% so far. “Analysis of all the positive and death cases is being done. For example, we are yet to know from where the youngest Covid-19 victim – a 14-month-old child from Jamnagar – got the infection from. Result of the child’s parents is negative,” she said.
Nine-year-old girl from Indore tests +ve
Out of total death cases, only two are outside of 41-80 years age bracket . One is the 14-month infant while the oldest deceased was 85-year-old woman from Ahmedabad who had travel history to Saudi Arabia.
The analysis revealed that out of total 10 death cases, three were having international travel history – apart from the woman who returned from Saudi Arabia, two deceased from Vadodara had returned from a trip to Sri Lanka.
Other three cases, one each from Bhavnagar, Surat and Ahmedabad, the patients were found to have travel history, primarily to Ahmedabad. Ten remaining cases were identified as local transmission.
Ravi had mentioned earlier that all the cases of patients’ deaths were found to have co-morbidity – especially diabetes, lung disease and hypertension. Out of total, nine patients had diabetes, eight had hypertension, three had lung/ respiratory issues, one had cancer, one had cardiac issues and two had brain/ neurological disorders.
Meanwhile, a nine-year-old girl from Indore who had come to Dahod for the burial of a family member tested positive for Covid-19.
Dahod district collector Vijay Kharadi said that the girl had come to Dahod on Tuesday along with four other persons in an ambulance with the body of a family member.
Officials of the district administration were informed about the family who put them in a quarantine facility in the town and their samples were collected. The girl was tested positive while the others family members tested negative for Covid-19.
Kharadi said that the Indore district administration was informed about the case.
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