AHMEDABAD: Continuing journey on the downward slope of Covid-19 curve, Gujarat on Saturday recorded 996 new positive cases in 24 hours.
The state recorded daily cases below 1,000 after 81 days.
Likewise, Ahmedabad at 142 new positive cases recorded lowest daily tally in 85 days.
Analysis of daily cases reveals that in seven days, the cases fell by 55% from 2,230 cases on May 29 to 996 on June 5.
The last time the state was in 901-1000 cases range was in mid-March.
Compared to mid-March figure however, the number of deaths is higher.
At 15 deaths, it was the lowest since April 6.
In the second half of March, average daily deaths were eight.
The active cases in Gujarat reached 20,000 on Saturday, the lowest in 58 days.
The phenomenon is primarily attributed to high number of Covid patients getting discharged from the hospitals.
For Gujarat, the number was three times higher than that of the new cases.
More than half (eight out of 15) deaths were recorded from eight municipal corporations – Ahmedabad city alone recorded deaths of four Covid patients.
Officials in the AMC said that the city had 3,276 active cases on Saturday morning which is likely to go down to below 3000 for the first time after April 10.
The AMC officials said that there has been a constant decline in the number of cases since April 25.
Officials said that there has been no change in the pattern of spread and western Ahmedabad continues to account for 60% of Covid cases and the remaining 40% are from the eastern part of the city.
The new west zone areas of Thaltej, Gota, Bodakdev, and Chandkheda in the north west zone and in south west zone, the areas of Jodhpur, Vejalpur and Bopal account for the highest number of cases even today.
In the west zone the areas of Navrangpura, Paldi, Vasna, Naranpura, Ranip, and Vadaj still have high number of cases.
However, this number was much less as compared to April per day cases.