AHMEDABAD: After more than five months, the number of active Covid-19 cases in the city crossed 1,000, reaching 1,088 on Thursday. As Gujarat has 2,371 active cases, more than four of every 10 active cases in the state are from the city.
The city’s test positivity rate (TPR) also touched 3%, as 269 cases were found in 8,887 tests over the past 24 hours – or three of every 100 tests returned positive. The number was the highest among urban areas and nearly four times higher than the state’s figure of 0.8%.
Compared to 265 new cases on Wednesday, the city recorded a slight increase at 269, but accounted for 47% of the state’s daily cases. Ahmedabad Hospitals and Nursing Homes Association (AHNA) statistics revealed that the number of hospitalized patients has doubled in seven days, from 7 on December 23 to 17 on December 30. Of these, eight are either in an ICU or on a ventilator. In all, the city has less than 30 hospitalized patients, indicating that the majority of patients did not require oxygen or intensive care.
The other cases included 74 from Surat city, 41 from Vadodara city, 18 from Rajkot, 16 from Gandhinagar city, 16 from Kutch, 15 from Valsad, 14 from Anand, and 10 each from Bhavnagar and Rajkot cities. All eight municipal corporations and 21 of 33 districts in Gujarat recorded at least one case in the past 24 hours. Now, only four districts have zero active cases, the state health department update said.
Gujarat in these 24 hours vaccinated 2.32 lakh persons, taking its total number of doses administered to 8.92 crore.
