AHMEDABAD: With the number of
Covid-19 positive cases seeing a decline to below 200, the number of active cases in the city has also gone down to below 2500. Even the number of micro contained societies has also gone down to just 10.
The
AMC officials said that in the last week of October the number of active cases was over 3100. The number of cases in the city began to increase since Diwali and the number increased to over 300 cases in the day. The situation had arisen that people were finding it difficult to get beds even in private hospital forcing the AMC to divert patients to Anand and
Gandhinagar districts.
The officials said that but the AMC has now been able to curtail the cases and the number of cases have also fallen to below 200 and the number of those discharged also matching the figures of fresh cases, the city was able to bring about a control and now about 14 odd hospitals have been relieved as designated Covid hospitals.
The officials said that the even the case positive ratio for
RTPCR which has increased to above five has now again come down to three percent or even less. The officials also said that there has also been a considerable drop in the number of patients who were tested positive in antigen tests.
The officials said that in the city till Sunday there were four zone including west zone,
north west zone, south west zone and south zone that had over 400 cases. But as on date only the south zone comprising of areas of Maninagar, Khokhra,
Behrampura, Danilimda have the highest 413 cases, while areas of Ranip, Paldi, Naranpura Navrangpura, Vadaj, have 400 active cases.
The area of
Bodakdev, Thaltej, Gota, Ghatlodia in North west zone and the areas of Bopal, Jodhpur, Vejalpur and Sarkhej in South west zone had over 400 cases and were in the top three zones in the city with west zone. The north west and south west zones have 398 and 397 active cases.
The officials said that by first week of December the number of micro contained areas had crossed the 150 marks, but as on date there are just 10 societies that are micro contained. OF these 10, four societies were added before a week.