Surat city’s case tally 3rd highest

Surat: Surat city reported 181 new Covid-19 cases and two deaths on Monday. According to Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC), a 39-year-old man from Varachha and 76-year-old man from Althan had succumbed to the infection.
The case tally of Diamond City was third lowest in the state after Ahmedabad (459) and Vadodara (337). The positive cases were detected from about 26,000 tests conducted in the city.
Rander zone has been reporting the highest daily fresh Covid-19 cases for the last few days and on Monday 54 cases were reported from the zone. This was followed by Athwa zone with 41 cases. The Limbayat zone recorded the lowest daily infections with 10 case.
SMC officials said that 421Covid-19 patients got discharged from different hospitals on Monday and the recovery rate had increased to 95.43% in the city.
As of Monday, 26,220 people were under home quarantine and 1,081 Covid-19 patients were under treatment in various hospitals in the city.
In Surat district, 86 new cases and four deaths were reported on Monday. The total number of infections touched 30,511 while the death toll reached 444 in the district.