With an addition of almost a hundred corona positive cases in Ahmedabad, Gujarat on Thursday registered a total of 163 positive cases, the highest number of positive cases in a single day. Gujarat now has a total of 929 corona positive cases with 36 deaths.
On Thursday morning a total of 105 positive cases and three deaths were reported in Gujarat and in the evening another 58 positive cases were registered. Out of the total 58 cases found on Thursday evening, Ahmedabad has 53, Surat 2 and one each in Rajkot, Vadodara and Aravalli.
On Thursday, Ahmedabad saw the highest number of positive cases in a single day in any city in the state, 95. Even Gujarat saw the highest number of positive cases in a single day, 163.
Ahmedabad continued to lead as far more positive cases were found in the state, which now has total of 929 positive cases. Ahmedabad has the maximum positive cases 545, followed by Vadodara 128, Surat 88, Rajkot 28, Bhavnagar 26, Anand 25, Gandhinagar 17, Patan 14, Bharuch 13, Panchmahal, Banaskantha and Narmada 6 each, Chotta Udepur 5, Kutch and Mehsana with 4 each, Porbandar 3, Gir-Somnath, Dahod and Kheda two each and Jamnagar, Morbi, Sabarkantha, Botad and Aravalli one each.
"In one positive sign, a 92-years-old man was successfully treated for the virus and was discharged from hospital in Bhavnagar," said Jayanti Ravi, Principal Secretary, Health and Family Welfare Department.
"In the last 24 hours, the health authorities have taken 1,706 samples for testing, where 163 have been found positive. The total number of tests carried out by the health department till now is 20,903 out of which 929 are positive, 19,974 negative," said Ravi.
The total number of quarantined people in the state is 14,906, where 12,774 are home-quarantined, 1,965 in government facilities and 16 in private facilities.
Following a spike in the number of positive cases in major cities, the Gujarat government imposed a week-long curfew in containment areas of two cities, Ahmedabad and Surat, from Wednesday and Friday morning respectively. This was because the maximum number of positive cases in Ahmedabad and Surat were found from the clusters in these areas.
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