Rajkot: Five persons tested positive in different districts of Saurashtra, while a 45-year-old woman succumbed to Covid-19 infection in Bhavnagar on Thursday.
Also, two persons were discharged from the Sir T Hospital in Bhavnagar.
In Rajkot the two persons who tested positive for coronavirus included a 38-year-old man, who returned from Ahmedabad on May 4 and a 19-year-old woman from Jangleshwar.
The Ahmedabad-returned man is resident of Manhar plot area. His is the first case in last three week from outside Rajkot’s hotspot Jangleswhar.
The health department has quarantined 68 persons who had come in close contact with the infected man. In Jamnagar, a two women aged 42 and 25 years tested positive on Thursday.
The older woman and come from Ahmedabad, while the younger one is resident of from Khambhaliya. Both had entered into the district illegally.
Meanwhile, Sofiya Pathan (45), died in Bhavnagar on Thursday.