VADODARA/AHMEDABAD: The sight outside Ebrahim Bavani ITI on Ajwa Road on Thursday reminded many of the Indian cricket team arriving home to a rousing welcome after winning the inaugural T20 world cup in 2007.
But the occasion here was no smaller than winning a World Cup. As many as 45 Covid-19 patients, who defeated the deadly novel coronavirus, were discharged at the same time from the Covid care centre (CCC) at the institute; the first such en masse discharge in Gujarat and probably India too, after the outbreak of pandemic.
In fact, Gujarat saw the highest single-day recovery on Thursday with as many as 79 positive patients being discharged.
The applause that the 23 men and 22 women, all from Nagarwada area, got from health workers and doctors got even more thunderous as they hit the main road in the specially arranged city buses. As the vehicles traversed through the roads, people in the near-by areas came out in their balconies and terraces, clapping for them and some even clanking thaalis to acknowledge their victory over the deadly virus.
At some places, the buses were showered with flower petals too.
‘Recovery rate in Gujarat better than national rate’
We came here on April 13 and stayed till Thursday. It was heartening to see so many people coming to see us off and showering us with love. They had lined on the roadside and were clapping for us,” said Tausif Pathan who was kept at the facility along with his wife Tanzil.
Nagarwada was declared a red zone after at least 150 people had tested positive since the first case surfaced on April 5. However, all will be in home quarantine for 14 days.
Senior IAS officer Dr Vinod Rao, the officer on Special Duty (OSD) for Covid in central Gujarat, said, “They were treated and discharged within 10 days. Discharge of such a large number of Covid-19 patients at the same time and from the same place is probably be the only incident of its kind."
Jayanti Ravi, principal secretary (health & family welfare), said that in all 258 patients have recovered in the state so far. "Besides 45 in Vadodara, 27 were discharged in Ahmedabad, five in Anand and one each in Chhota Udepur and Kheda," she said. Of the 79, 45 were men and 34 women.
Recovery rate in Gujarat patients is 9.8% of total positive cases as against the national rate of 19.3% as on April 22, said Ravi.
In Surat, two patients - 69-year-old Zubeda Abdul Satar Patel, a resident of Rander and Sajid Abdul Rehman Ansari, 40, a resident of Rampura - were discharge.
But the occasion here was no smaller than winning a World Cup. As many as 45 Covid-19 patients, who defeated the deadly novel coronavirus, were discharged at the same time from the Covid care centre (CCC) at the institute; the first such en masse discharge in Gujarat and probably India too, after the outbreak of pandemic.
In fact, Gujarat saw the highest single-day recovery on Thursday with as many as 79 positive patients being discharged.
The applause that the 23 men and 22 women, all from Nagarwada area, got from health workers and doctors got even more thunderous as they hit the main road in the specially arranged city buses. As the vehicles traversed through the roads, people in the near-by areas came out in their balconies and terraces, clapping for them and some even clanking thaalis to acknowledge their victory over the deadly virus.
At some places, the buses were showered with flower petals too.
‘Recovery rate in Gujarat better than national rate’
We came here on April 13 and stayed till Thursday. It was heartening to see so many people coming to see us off and showering us with love. They had lined on the roadside and were clapping for us,” said Tausif Pathan who was kept at the facility along with his wife Tanzil.
Nagarwada was declared a red zone after at least 150 people had tested positive since the first case surfaced on April 5. However, all will be in home quarantine for 14 days.
Senior IAS officer Dr Vinod Rao, the officer on Special Duty (OSD) for Covid in central Gujarat, said, “They were treated and discharged within 10 days. Discharge of such a large number of Covid-19 patients at the same time and from the same place is probably be the only incident of its kind."
Jayanti Ravi, principal secretary (health & family welfare), said that in all 258 patients have recovered in the state so far. "Besides 45 in Vadodara, 27 were discharged in Ahmedabad, five in Anand and one each in Chhota Udepur and Kheda," she said. Of the 79, 45 were men and 34 women.
Recovery rate in Gujarat patients is 9.8% of total positive cases as against the national rate of 19.3% as on April 22, said Ravi.
In Surat, two patients - 69-year-old Zubeda Abdul Satar Patel, a resident of Rander and Sajid Abdul Rehman Ansari, 40, a resident of Rampura - were discharge.
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