Only eight Covid patients now critical

Vadodara: Only eight critical Covid-19 patients are now being treated on ventilator or BiPAP machines in the city and district. These are amongst the 302 active cases that now remain under treatment in hospitals or at home.
On Tuesday, 16 new cases were detected in the city and district from 1,721 samples that were tested. This took the total number of Covid-19 cases detected in the city and district since the pandemic began to 71,689. The official death toll remained at 623 as no new deaths were confirmed by the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC).
The new positive cases include six from the areas of the district outside VMC limits and 10 from the city. Besides the eight patients on ventilators or BiPAP machines, 17 others are on oxygen support.