Surat: The fresh Covid-19 cases in Surat city crossed the 100-mark on Friday, which is the highest daily rise in over three months. Officials of the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) said that with the 101 new coronavirus cases reported on Friday, the case tally in the Diamond City reached 41,094.
“The Athwa zone continued to report the highest number of cases among the eight zones of the city with 35 fresh cases. It was followed by Rander (16) and Limbayat (14),” said an SMC official. SMC once again urged citizens coming from outside the city to get themselves tested for Covid-19 to prevent the spread of the infection.
Meanwhile, the enforcement teams of the civic body penalized 149 people for not wearing face masks and collected Rs 1.49 lakh as fine for violation of Covid-19 guideline.
Senior SMC health officials had recently held a meeting at SMIMER hospital to review the preparedness to deal with rising Covid-19 cases.
“We have been asked to be prepared to handle more cases. We are monitoring the situation very closely,” said an official from SMIMER hospital.