Ahmedabad: Gujarat in 24 hours recorded 111 new Covid cases – the highest in the past six months.
For Ahmedabad City, the daily case count is 43 – the highest since July 18.
In the past week, Gujarat has recorded a 63% increase in the case of everyday while Ahmedabad City has recorded an increase of 115%.
New cases include 43 in the city of Ahmedabad, 17 in the City of Letter, 11 in the city of Rajkot, 10 in the city of Vadodara, 5 each at KUTP and Valsad, 4 each in Kheda and Navsari, 3 each in Anand and Anand Rajkot, 2 in Mahisagar, and 1 each in the city of Bhavnagar, Sabarkantha, Mail and Vadodara.
The city accounts for 74% of everyday cases.
With seven new cases Omicron variants are confirmed in Vadodara, the state counting reaches 30.
Of the total, 25 active, said the state health department official.
Manoj Aggarwal, ACS (Health & Family Welfare), on Thursday said that the state has adequate medicines, hospital beds and other preparation for possible increases in cases.
His statement came after a review of CM Bhupendra Patel with senior officers.
Officials said that Gujarat had visited 95% of the population that qualified with the first dose and 84% with the second dose of covid vaccines.
“According to the WHO and government guidelines, the screening of all international passengers is taking place at Ahmedabad airport and letters.
Overall, 31,000 passengers are filtered so far, where 3,500 of countries are at risk of undergoing RT-PCR tests.
Positive patients are stored under the quarantine of the house and Patients who are not positively stored under isolation.
They are tested again on the third and fifth day, “said Aggarwal to the media.
He added that the country was doing 70,000 to 75,000 daily tests taking into account the increase in omicron cases.
Will increase further, he said.
“Of all cases of omicron variants, no one requires hospitalization.
But they are stored in hospitals so that viruses can be contained.
All have been neglected with mild symptoms such as fever, cough and cold.
We really follow the guidelines by the center,” said Aggarwal, it is interesting for citizens to comply with the Covid protocol.
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