Highest single-day tally: 949 new Covid-19 cases in Gujarat

AHMEDABAD: With 949 new Covid-19 cases reported in in the 24 hours ending 5pm on Friday, Gujarat recorded its highest single-day number of new cases, taking its total number of cases to 46,516 cases, according to the state health department.
Some 17 more patients succumbed to the infection, including five each from Ahmedabad and Surat, two each from Rajkot and Bhavnagar and one each from Gandhinagar, Patan and Vadodara. With this, the death toll in the state hit 2,108.
Ahmedabad and Surat continued to report the highest number of cases in the state. The fresh cases included 234 from Surat, 184 from Ahmedabad, 77 from Vadodara, 44 from Bhavnagar, 58 from Rajkot and 32 from Gandhinagar. The number of total cases is the highest in Ahmedabad (city and rural) at 23,964 cases. Surat’s tally is also rising rapidly and stood at 9,685 cases, next only to Ahmedabad.
Some 770 people were discharged from various hospitals in Gujarat taking the total number of patients who have recovered in the state to 32,944. These 770 included 351 from Surat, 165 from Ahmedabad and 87 from Vadodara.
In all, 5.12 lakh Covid-19 tests have been conducted across the state, till Friday. The state has 11,464 active cases of which 71 are on ventilator support whereas 11,363 are stable.
Some 3.74 lakh people have been quarantined in Gujarat, with 3.72 lakh in home quarantine and 2,203 persons in institutional quarantine facilities.