Gujarat’s Covid toll crosses 3,600

AHMEDABAD: With the deaths of 11 Covid patients in 24 hours, the Covid death toll in Gujarat crossed 3,600, with 3,609 deaths as of Thursday evening.

The last 100 deaths were recorded in 10 days, compared to the earlier average of eight days, indicating a reduction in the death rate.
The deaths in the last 24 hours included four from Ahmedabad, two from Surat, and one each from Vadodara, Gandhinagar, Mahisagar, Patan and Tapi. The total number of deaths in Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara and Rajkot reached 1,863, 812, 201 and 152, respectively.
In the 24 hours ending 5pm on Thursday, Gujarat recorded 1,185 new cases, taking the state’s total so far to 1.56 lakh. It was the fifth consecutive day of fewer than 1,200 new cases, even as the state recorded a 2.3% increase in daily cases in the past three days. The new cases included 249 from Surat, 186 from Ahmedabad, 119 from Vadodara, 109 from Rajkot and 82 from Jamnagar. The total number of cases in Surat reached 33,097, whereas the tallies in Ahmedabad, Vadodara and Rajkot reached 39,740, 13,965, and 11,227, respectively.
A total of 1,329 patients were discharged in these 24 hours, taking the total number of discharges in the state to 1.37 lakh. The 1,329 discharges included 281 from Surat, 181 from Vadodara, 180 from Ahmedabad, and 118 from Rajkot.
The number of active cases in Gujarat is now 14,804. The shares of active cases, persons discharged and deaths in the state were 9.5%, 88.2% and 2.3%, respectively.
After three days of fewer than 51,000 tests per day, in these 24 hours testing improved to 51,215 and the state’s total number of tests reached 52.16 lakh. As on Thursday evening, Gujarat had 5.64 lakh persons in quarantine.