AHMEDABAD: It was a major jump in daily new Covid-19 cases for Ahmedabad city as it went from 1 on Sunday to 9 on Monday. The exponential rise pushed the daily cases for Gujarat from 14 on Sunday to 19 on Monday, a rise of 36% —- one of the highest in the recent past.
The new positive cases on Monday include 9 in Ahmedabad, 3 each from Surat and Vadodara cities, 2 from Kutch, and 1 from Bhavnagar city and Gir Somnath district.
While Gir Somnath recorded its first case in a while, two districts – Jamnagar and Narmada – recorded discharge of their last patients, taking the number of districts with zero active cases to 18 again.
The number of patients on ventilators rose to seven. With only 13 discharges against 19 new cases, the active cases rose by six to 152, crossing the 150 cases mark after four days.
