According to sources in the state health department, this is the highest recorded in the city since June last year. For perspective, the city’s TPR was only 4.5% 10 days ago – registering a six-fold increase. In comparison, the state’s TPR stood at 9.5% on Wednesday.
Gujarat recorded 9,941 new Covid cases in 24 hours – the highest in the last 243 days or eight months. To put the figure in perspective, out of the 665 days of the pandemic, this was the 30th day for Gujarat with 9,000 or more cases.
Data from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare showed that Ahmedabad had a weekly (January 5-11) test positivity rate of 23% – on par with Delhi and Chennai. Among major cities, Kolkata had a TPR of 60%, while that of Mumbai was 27%. But Ahmedabad’s TPR was the highest among major cities. Apart from Ahmedabad, Surat entered districts this week at 10.5% with a TPR of over 10%.
Gujarat also recorded the death of four active patients – two each from Surat, and one each from Rajkot and Valsad districts. The last time the state recorded four deaths in a day was June 20 or in 7 months. In Gujarat, 17 patients have died in the last 10 days, which is 42% more than the last 10 days.
At 43,726, the active cases in Gujarat were the highest since May 28. According to the bulletin of the state health department, a total of 51 patients are on ventilator. Of the total daily cases, 62% were from the cities of Ahmedabad and Surat alone.
City records 21k new covid cases in 10 days
In the last 10 days (January 3 to 12), Gujarat reported 51,949 new cases, of which 21,579 or 41% were from Ahmedabad city alone – that is, four out of every 10 cases in the last 10 days were from the city.
As the city recorded 3,843 cases on Wednesday, 6,700 cases have been reported in the last two days alone. With the addition of 2,240 cases, the number of active cases in the city rose to 17,961 – accounting for 41% of the state’s active cases. The city accounts for 47 per cent of the 3,449 patients discharged on Wednesday.
According to the Ahmedabad Hospitals and Nursing Homes Association (AHNA), there were 124 patients in private hospitals in the city – up from 105 five days ago. Of these, 89 are in isolation, 25 in high-dependency units, nine in ICU and one on ventilator.
“Compared to the second wave, the level of hospitalization is much lower. Fewer patients are becoming critical and need ICU treatment or ventilators. The reason for this is almost no oxygen requirement – perhaps from a mutation of the virus or the effects of vaccination. concerned,” said a senior hospital administrator in the city.
The new cases in the state include 2,505 from Surat city (an increase of 26%), 776 (41%) from Vadodara and 319 from Rajkot (31%). For the state, the day-on-day growth was 33%, the highest in the last seven days.
Data from the Union Health Ministry shows that Ahmedabad had a weekly (January 5-11) test positivity rate (TPR) of 23% – on par with Delhi and Chennai. Among major cities, Kolkata had a TPR of 60%, while that of Mumbai was 27%.
Gujarat has given the first dose of the vaccine to 1.1 lakh people and the second dose to 90,344 people in the last 24 hours. In all, 4.99 crore people have received the first dose and 4.38 crore people have received the second dose. Of the above numbers, 46,650 persons aged 15-18 years have been vaccinated for a total of 20.14 lakh in this group, and a total of 3.8 lakh to 1.01 lakh healthcare and frontline workers (HCWs and FLWs) have been given booster doses. Is.
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