AHMEDABAD: A day after the state recorded its 92-day low daily tally of 996, Gujarat in 24 hours ending 5pm on Tuesday registered a 13% rise at 1,126. With the update, the total tally reached 1.61 lakh for the state.
The new cases included 231 from Surat, 178 from Ahmedabad, 113 from Vadodara, 104 from Rajkot, and 71 from Jamnagar.
The tallies for Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara and Rajkot have now reached 40,651, 34,301, 14,550, and 11,740 respectively.
The state also recorded deaths of eight positive patients, taking the death toll to 3,654. The deaths included two each from Ahmedabad and Surat, and one each from Vadodara, Rajkot, Gandhinagar and Mehsana.
A total of 1,128 patients were discharged in 24 hours, taking the total to 1.43 lakh. The discharges included 244 from Surat, 178 from Ahmedabad, 104 from Rajkot, and 99 from Vadodara.
The number of active cases in Gujarat has reached 14,267. The shares of active, discharged, and deceased patients in Gujarat were 8.8%, 88.9%, and 2.3% respectively on Tuesday.
The state recorded a slight rise in daily testing with 52,915 tests in 24 hours, taking the total to 54.79 lakh. According to the state health department officials, the number was 814 tests per day per million population.
As on Tuesday evening, Gujarat had 5.4 lakh persons under quarantine. Of the total, 266 were under facility quarantine, whereas the rest were under home quarantine.