Covid-19: Gujarat adds 1,295 positive cases, 13 deaths in 24 hours

AHMEDABAD: Gujarat in 24 hours ending 5pm on Tuesday recorded 1,295 new cases, taking the total to 1.06 lakh. It was the lowest daily case tally for the state in the past eight days.
The cases included 265 from Surat, 170 from Ahmedabad, 134 from Rajkot, 124 from Vadodara, and 99 from Jamnagar. The five districts accounted for 792 or 61% of the total cases in 24 hours. With the update, Ahmedabad was closer to 33,000 cumulative cases, whereas the tally is set to reach 23,000 for Surat and 6,000 for Rajkot.
The state also recorded deaths of 13 patients, taking the death toll to 3,136. The deaths include six from Surat, three from Ahmedabad, two from Rajkot, and one each from Vadodara and Gandhinagar. With the update, the death toll for Ahmedabad and Surat reached 1,740 and 668.
Analysis of the deaths in the first eight days of September reveal that out of 114 deaths, 81% of the deaths were recorded from Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara and Rajkot districts. Cumulatively, the four districts account for 85% of the state’s deaths.
A total of 1,445 patients got discharged in 24 hours, taking the total to 87,479. The discharges included 320 from Rajkot, 231 from Surat, 130 from Jamnagar, 105 from Vadodara, and 95 from Ahmedabad.
With the update, the number of active patients in Gujarat rose to 16,351, accounting for 15.3% of total positive cases so far. Out of total, 81.8% of the patients have got discharged, whereas 2.9% have succumbed to the infection.
Gujarat in 24 hours carried out 72,076 tests, taking the total to 29.25 lakh. The state health department claimed that it's 1109 tests per day per million population. As on Tuesday evening, Gujarat had 5.85 lakh persons under quarantine, out of which 467 were under facility quarantine, while the rest were under home quarantine.