Gujarat’s daily Covid tally at 71-day low

AHMEDABAD: Gujarat on Monday reported 1,681 new Covid cases and 18 deaths. This tally was the lowest in 71 days, whereas the mortality rate was the lowest for 55 days. For cities, the Covid tally reduced further with at least one and a half times more discharges than the number of new cases.
While the state’s active cases reached 32,345, the number of active cases in Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat and Rajkot districts reached 5,493, 5,500, 3,403 and 457, respectively. Of the state’s 33 districts, only nine now have more than 1,000 active cases, the state Covid dashboard claims. The discharge/recovery rate of the state also reached close to 95%.
Of the 33 districts, only 10 recorded one or more deaths in the 24 hours ending 5pm on Monday.
Gujarat on Monday administered 2 lakh shots of Covid vaccines, of which 1.66 lakh were first shots.