Covid-19 cases in Vadodara may cross 5K-mark today

Vadodara: Covid-19 cases in Vadodara is set to cross the 5,000 mark on Tuesday. By Monday evening, the city and the district had registered 93 new cases taking the total number of Covid-19 cases to 4,945. Since quite some time, Vadodara is witnessing an average increase of 90 cases a day.
The Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) on Sunday also declared two more deaths due to Covid-19 taking the official death toll to 94.
The fresh cases are results of 883 samples that were tested in 24 hours from Sunday evening. The new cases have been reported from Chhani Road, Sudamapuri, Waghodiya Road, Tandalja, Vadsar, New VIP Road, Tarsali, Subhanpura, Gorwa, Akota, Vasna Road, Manjalpur, Gotri, Fatehpura and Karelibaug areas within the VMC limits.
In Vadodara rural, the fresh cases have been reported from Dabhoi, Padra, Karjan, Karkhadi, Por and Sevasi.
The number of patients under treatment, also termed as active cases, remained above 1,000 for second consecutive day.
Currently, as per VMC’s medical bulletin, there are 1,073 active cases in the city and district. Of these, condition of 877 patients is said to be stable while 155 are being treated on oxygen and 41 others are on ventilator.
Sunday witnessed 28 discharges of which 16 were from private hospitals and 12 from home isolation. At present, 2,190 individuals are under quarantine. Of them, 2,152 are under home quarantine, 20 at under quarantine at private facilities while 18 are under quarantine at government facilities.
VMC’s North zone which has been worst hit due to the pandemic continued to witness a spike in cases. With addition of 30 new cases within 24 hours, the total number of Covid-19 cases in this zone has now reached 1,421.
The south zone saw addition of 11 new cases taking the total to 978 while the east and west zones witnessed 10 and 15 new cases taking the total number of cases to 918 and 655 respectively.
Vadodara rural which too is witnessing a rise in number of cases has recorded 27 new cases taking the total number of positive cases in rural areas of the district to 946.