With 1,214 cases, Covid declines in Surat

Surat: For the third consecutive day, Surat city witnessed decline in the number of Covid-19 cases. On Tuesday, the city recorded 1214 fresh infections. According to Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) cases started declining since March 24 after it had peaked to 2361 on that day.
Number of Covid-related deaths are also dipping. On Tuesday, eight patients succumbed in the city. Victims included a 40-year-old man from Dumas, a 49-year-old woman from Honey park in Rander and a 50-year-old man from Rudarpura in the city.
“Ankit Contractor, 35, who was a supervisor (civil) with SMC’s central zone succumbed to the infection at a private hospital on Tuesday. As many as 43 SMC staffers have died from the infection since the beginning of the pandemic,” said an SMC official.
Athwa and Rander zone continue to report above 300 cases every day for the past few weeks. On Tuesday too, Rander recorded 315, while Athwa has 301 cases. About 3,351 patients were under treatment in different hospitals in the city. As on Tuesday, 49,950 people were in home quarantine in the city. SMC enforcement team lodged a complaint against one Covid-19 patient after he was reported to have escaped to his native village in Uttar Pradesh from Mugdalla village where he was placed under home quarantine.