Jaipur: Jodhpur has become the second district after Jaipur to have breached the 30,000 mark in cumulative Covid cases. Ajmer has become the sixth district to have recorded over 10,000 cases.
According to a health department report, Ajmer’s cumulative cases touched 10,330. The other five districts that have already breached the figure are are Jaipur (34,679), Jodhpur (30,213), Alwar (15,563), Bikaner (14,579) and Kota (11,333).
In the last 24 hours, the state reported 1,770 new infections, taking the overall tally to 2,03,990.
During the same period, nine persons died from the virus, which pushed the casualty count to 1,945. Jaipur reported its 378th Covid death, Jodhpur 188th, Udaipur 74th, Sikar 60th, Alwar 59th, Nagaur 58th, Jalore 38th, Barmer 36th and Churu reported its 25th Covid fatality.
The health department said they have expanded healthcare facilities for Covid across the state due to which the recovery rate has improved a lot and the mortality rate has gone done significantly.
“We have managed the pandemic well with the recovery rate being above 90% and the fatality rate being less than 1%. The testing facilities are available at 22 government and 16 private labs and hospitals where authentic RT-PCR tests are being done. The state has developed the infrastructure to conduct more than 52,000 tests per day. Two testing labs are about to be opened soon at Pratapgarh district hospital and at Nathdwara sub-district hospital and testing facilities will be started at all the district headquarters and district hospitals by the end of November,” said Raghu Sharma, health minister.
Twenty-nine districts of the state reported new infections. Districts which reported new cases are: Jaipur (320), Jodhpur (185), Bikaner (179), Alwar (145), Ajmer (125), Sikar (98), Kota (72), Sriganganagar (72), Nagaur (65), Pali (54), Jhunjhunu (46), Udaipur (45), Bharatpur (45), Jalore (42), Churu (39), Dausa (37), Barmer (34), Tonk (28), Dungarpur (28), Bhilwara (25), Hanumangarh (16), Sirohi (14), Bundi (13), Karauli (13), Rajsamand (11), Jhalawar (9), Chittorgarh (5), Jaisalmer (3) and Baran (2).
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Congress state president Govind Singh Dotasara’s wife and son have tested positive for Covid-19. Congress leader and MLA from Tonk Sachin Pilot tweeted, “Recieved information of state Congress president and education minister shree @GovindDotasara’s wife and son been tested positive for Covid-19. I pray to God for their speedy recovery.”
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Today’s positive: 1,770
Cumulative positive: 2,03,990
Today’s death: 9
Cumulative deaths: 1,945
Today’s recovered: 1,823
Cumulative recovered: 1,85,722
Active cases: 16,323