Covid-19: Gujarat hits another daily high at 624 cases in 24 hrs, tally 31,397

AHMEDABAD: Gujarat hit another high of 624 Covid-19 positive cases in the past 24 hours ending 5pm on Sunday, taking the total tally at 31,397.
It's the fourth consecutive day for Gujarat to record a new highest daily tally and third consecutive day of 600-plus cases.
The state also recorded deaths of 19 positive patients and discharges of 391 patients, taking the death toll to 1809 and total number of discharges to 22,808.
With the update on Sunday, the state now has 21.6% active patients (6,780) whereas the share of discharged and dead patients is 72.6% and 5.8% respectively.
The new cases include 211 from Ahmedabad, 182 from Surat, 44 from Vadodara and 36 from Valsad. It's the sixth day for Ahmedabad district to record less than 240 daily cases whereas in those six days, Surat district has clocked less than 170 cases only once.
The deaths included 13 from Ahmedabad, three from Surat and one each from Gandhinagar, Aravalli and Bharuch. Majority of the discharges were recorded from Ahmedabad (181), Surat (156) and Vadodara (17) districts.
Gujarat carried out 6158 tests in 24 hours to find new patients, taking the total to 3.63 lakh. As on Sunday evening, Gujarat has 2.38 lakh persons under quarantine out of which 2.34 lakh are under home quarantine.