Vadodara Covid cases ebb to 2020 levels, 38 new infections

VADODARA: If Covid-19 gripped the Vadodara city much faster in the second wave, it seems to have spared it equally briskly. For the first time, the number of cases in the city and district dropped below after June 2020.
On Wednesday, the city and district recorded 38 new cases. Before this, the city and district had recorded 37 cases in a single day on June 12, 2020.
Even 37 new cases had raised a lot of concern in June last year. But as the pandemic progressed, this is being seen as a figure on the lower side. Another major difference between the situation then and now is that the 37 cases on June 12, 2020 were detected only from 181 tests. Against this, it took 2,231 tests to identify the new cases on Wednesday.

While the total number of cases now maybe around 50 times what it was on June 12, 2020, a major respite has been the high recovery rate. Against a recovery rate of 65.2% then, the rate today stands at 96.7%.
The reduction in the daily caseload has been very drastic in the second wave as compared to the first wave. Sources said that this could be because Diwali festivities had led to a minor spike in the first wave and then local body elections had ensured that the downfall was arrested.
Vadodara Municipal Corporation’s medical officer (health) Dr Devesh Patel said that the graph went down sharply in the second wave as a large number of people had been infected in both the waves. “In the first wave, there were many who had not been infected. Now, we have many who were infected and many others who are vaccinated,” said Patel.