Ahmedabad: From 1 to 28 January, Gujarat recorded three cases of Lakh Covid with an average every day 10,752.
Eight major cities accounted for 2.26 lakh or 77% of cases.
Cities include Ahmedabad, Letters, Vadodara, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Jamnagar, Junagadh and Gandhinagar.
Ironically, the villages contributed 42% of the temporary deaths 149 of 257 deaths or 58% were recorded from these cities.
Thus, while the eight city mortality rate was 0.07% or one death per 700 cases, the remaining Gujarat recorded a mortality rate of 0.15% or one death per 150 cases, or about four times higher.
“The majority of deaths outside eight city companies have been recorded in Rajkot, Valsad, Jamnagar and Navsari districts, among others, vaccinations have emerged as the main factors such as more than 40% of people who have given up on Covid infection also not taken.
One or both doses, “said a senior state health department official.
“Another factor is comorbidity and related complications of age – around 70% above 60 years and not in total, more than 60% have comorbidity.
Deaths under 40 years very little.” Meanwhile, Gujarat on Friday recorded death 30 active patients in the last eight months.
On May 27 last year, Gujarat had recorded 33 deaths.
Of the 30 deaths, 60% were recorded in eight major cities – 7 of Ahmedabad, 4 of Rajkot, 3 of Vadodara, 2 of Bhavnagar, and 1 of each of the cities of Letters and Jamnagar.
The rest comes from other regions in the state.
City-based experts say that will need time to understand the genetic arrangement of the prevalent virus – while the dominant Omicron variant in the population, Delta is still present even though in a minority, they said.
P4, 6 & 12 they added that for the past few days, with an increase in the total number, the number of patients on ventilators and ICU also increased proportionally.
On Friday, 297 active patients were in the ventilator, or around 0.3% of 1.07 lakh active patients.
Gujarat in 24 hours recorded 12,131 new cases, third day sequentially in everyday cases.