AHMEDABAD: For the first time after 110 days, the city reported less than 70 new Covid cases in a single day.
On Friday, the city reported 69 fresh cases and two deaths.
It was on February 22 that the city had last reported 70 cases.
AMC officials said that 224 patients were discharged and hence when the data is collated on Saturday morning, the city will after a long time have less than 2,000 active cases.
The officials said that the city had exactly 2,000 active cases at 11 am on Friday.
The officials said that the cases which had begun to rise after February 22, had peaked to 5,790 cases on April 25 — the highest cases reported in a single day in the city.
The city then saw a decline, and in the next 47 days, reported less than 70 cases — a drop of 98.8% as compared to peak days.
However, the number of active cases was the highest on May 3 when the city had more than 65,000 active cases.
In the next 40 days, the active cases came down to 200.
It was on May 21 that the city had reported less than 25,000 cases.
The decline in new Covid cases and recovery of more and more people has brought down the number of active cases in the city.