AHMEDABAD: Health officials in Gandhinagar city are worried, as a five-year-old girl who had just returned from Germany, tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday.
The girl had come to the Sughad area. Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation (GMC) officials have requested police to ensure that public gatherings are restricted in the city. The girl has been isolated at a private hospital in the city.
“We are yet to confirm whether she has been infected with the Omicron variant. The state government will declare the nature of Covid infection,” said a GMC health official. The official added that the girl visited her relatives in Germany and returned last Wednesday. Her samples have been sent for genome sequencing, GMC officials said.
Ahmedabad on Monday recorded 18 daily Covid-19 positive cases, recording an 80% jump from 10 cases on Sunday. As Gujarat recorded 58 new cases, Ahmedabad accounted for 31% of the daily cases. With death of a patient in Valsad, the death toll due to Covid-19 increased to 10,099.
The new positive cases include 18 from Ahmedabad city, 12 from Vadodara city, 5 each from Bhavnagar city and Kutch, 4 each from Rajkot city and Navsari, 2 each from Surat city and Patan, and 1 each from Gandhinagar city, Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Gir Somnath, Rajkot and Vadodara districts. Cities accounted for 72% of daily cases.
With the discharge of 56 patients, the active cases got reduced by 2 to 549. Out of total, five were on ventilator. Experts said that the test positivity rate has remained below 1% across the state, but more testing, especially in major transit points, is necessary to quickly identify cases. Gujarat in 24 hours vaccinated 2.56 lakh persons, taking the total to 8.55 crore.
