With 480 cases, Rajasthan logs highest single-day spike

JAIPUR: With 480 new Covid-19 infections, the state reported its biggest single-day jump in positive cases on Saturday. The second-highest number of positive cases (395) was reported on June 23.
Eleven districts reported 20 or more than 20 fresh cases on Saturday. Highest number of cases was reported from Alwar where 54 persons were found infected with the new virus taking its tally 656. While in Barmer, in western part of the state, where the state government has already imposed sevenday lockdown, reported 43 cases.

In Jaipur, 16 different places reported 40 new cases. The areas which reported new cases are Manak Chawk (8), Ajmer Road (4), Johri Bazaar (3), Durgapura (3), Sanganer (2), Sodala (2), Galta Gate (2), Vaishali Nagar (2) and one each case was reported from Kotputli, Jawahar Nagar, C-scheme, Mansarovar, Sitapura, Gopalpura and Gandhi Nagar. Seven persons who have returned from foreign countries under Vande Bharat and have been kept at institutional quarantine facilities, were tested positive for Covid-19 on Saturday.
In Bharatpur, which has been fighting hard to contain the spread of the virus since last week of May, reported 30 new infections. In Bharatpur, the source of infection was its grain and vegetable mandis. Dholpur reported 39 cases on Saturday taking its tally to 740. Till June 19, Dholpur had reported 250 cases and it took in 15 days.
Districts which reported new cases are Alwar (54), Bikaner (46), Barmer (43), Jalore (42), Jaipur (40), Dholpur (39), Bharatpur (30), Jodhpur (29), Nagaur (26), Pali (22), Udaipur (20), Sikar (16), Dungarpur (13), Jhunjhunu (11), Sirohi (8), Ajmer (7), Dausa (4), Karauli (3), Rajsamand (2), Tonk (2), Bhilwara (1), Sriganganagar (1), Hanumangarh (1), Sawai Madhopur (1) and four from other state and one is BSF personnel.
However, as many as 359 persons have been cured of Covid-19 taking its tally to 15,640. The number of active cases has increased to 3,445 on Saturday. The highest number of active cases are in Jaipur (479), followed by Jodhpur (411), Alwar (310), Bikaner (244) and Barmer (210).