Surat city records highest 201 new Covid cases in one day

SURAT: The number of Covid-19 positive cases in Surat city reached 5,475 on Saturday with the addition of a record 201 highest ever cases in a single day.
The spike in positive cases in the Diamond City also prompted chief minister Vijay Rupani and other state functionaries to visit the city on Saturday to take stock of the pandemic situation.
According to Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC), Covid-19 hotspot Katargam continues to report the highest number of cases every day, with 60 reported on Saturday from the zone alone. Rander followed with 34 cases, 28 from Varachha (A) and 22 each from Central and Varachha (B) zones in the city.
Total nine patients succumbed to the infections in Surat city on Saturday, of whom four were from Katargam, two each from central zone and Rander, while one was from the Limbayat zone.
SMC officials said that all the deceased also had co-morbid conditions.
SMC on Saturday declared 3,828 houses in Varachha area having 18,000 people as ‘cluster zone’ after Covid-19 cases reported from this area. This cluster zone includes Ayodhya Society, Puna gam, Shivnagar, Samrat Society, Vikramnagar, Sainath, Shaktiniketan society, Yogeshwar Park society, Hari Ram Bapanagar society and Kodiyarnagar society among others.
Meanwhile, 122 Covid-19 patients were discharged on Saturday taking the total number of discharged patients to 3,395 in the city.