Ahmedabad: With 8391 new patients, the city recorded the highest number of Covid cases for the second day in a row on Wednesday.
This is 40% surge compared to 5998 cases on Tuesday – one of the highest daily rises in a new case.
The city also contributed 40% of the country’s daily calculation of 20,966 – again one of the highest in late.
On Wednesday, the city recorded the death of six patients, doubled the number in a day from 3 on Tuesday.
In just a week, city death was recorded 15 patients – the highest weekly death since July last year, revealed analysis.
Experts from the city said that the surge was quite high compared to the second wave due to a very transmitted nature of the Omicron variant, which was confirmed to be the dominant variant in Gujarat.
“Almost all tests of testing were run by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) watched a long queue since morning, a clear indication that there was an increase in everyday cases.
In fact, the amount can be much higher than the official count, “said an epidemiologist.
“Because of the mild nature of infection, many avoid formal tests in the laboratory or go to the doctor.
Instead they switch to your own treatment, which is not recommended.
” While the government managed by the government has more than 150 patients now, private hospitals have 132 patients from 7 are in ventilators and 16 in the ICU ward.
Officials said that some patients did not take one or two doses of vaccination.
With the update on Wednesday, Ahmedabad Regency added 4,618 new active cases, so that total for 31,876, accounting for one-third of the total active case of the state.