Rajkot discharges 17 people, including a month-old infant girl

Rajkot: The city on Monday sent home 17 people from the Civil Hospital, prime among them being a one-and-half-month-old baby girl, along with her parents Seema, 18, and Arifbhai Piludia, 25. Along with the trio, all the other patients too hailed from city’s Covid hotspot, Jangleshwar area. The baby was the first to be infected with Covid, said doctors, after which the parents too contracted the disease and were admitted to the hospital around April 25. The city so far has registered 63 positive cases, of which 48 people have been discharged. In Jamnagar, three people with travel history, including a journalist, tested positive on Monday. The district has 29 positive cases so far. A 49-year-old woman from Palitana tested positive on Monday, taking the total to 95 in Bhavnagar.
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