Vadodara: The steady rise in Covid-19 cases in the city and district ensured that the number of cases on a single day reached three figures for the first time since October 19. The total number of Covid-19 cases reported in the city and district also crossed 17,000 on Saturday.
The city and district saw 101 persons testing positive in the 24 hours ending on Saturday evening. With the new cases, the total number of cases reported in the city and district went up to 17,041. The new cases included 39 from parts of the district outside the city limits and 62 within the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) limits.
Before this, the city had district had witnessed 101 cases in 24 hours on October 19. Since then the official number of cases in the city and district has remained in the 90s, but never went below that. Since Monday the number of persons testing positive for Covid-19 has been largely on a rise.
VMC officials, however, said that the situation in the city was well under control and the hospitalization figures had not increased drastically. The discharge rate had also remained healthy ensuring that the number of active cases remained low.
On Saturday, 98 patients were discharged from home isolation or hospitals. This left 1,138 persons hospitalized including 61 on ventilators or BIPAP machines. As many as 166 others were breathing with the help of oxygen.
No fresh deaths were confirmed by the VMC keeping the total number of Covid-19 victims in the city and district at 217. These deaths do not include Covid-19 patients who may have died due to comorbidities or other ailments.