Ahmedabad: City again recorded the highest daily Tally Covid at 9,837 in 24 hours on Thursday.
On December 27, the city has recorded 98 cases, thus recording a 100-fold increase in a countd of 25 days, the fastest so far during a pandemic.
In the second wave, it has taken 64 days to reach from 50 to 5,000, more than double the current surge.
On Thursday, Gujarat crossed 10 cases of cumulative covid lakh – reached a landmark in 673 days.
Analysis revealed it was the fastest addition of 1 case of lakh in six days.
Previously, the fastest was seven days in April-May last year when cases in the state jumped from 5 lakh to 6 lakh.
Spike came after the addition of 1 lakh case the latest – from 8 lakh to 9 lakh, the state took 232 days.
To place a figure in perspective, 1 case the first lakh was recorded in 169 days.
Of the 10 lakh cases, 1 case of lakh or 10% active, 10,199 or 1% is dead, and the remaining 89% has run out.
The source at the State Health Department said that in the second and third waves, a large number of patients in the working group (20 to 55 years) were infected.
“The omicron variant is likely to include a very large population.
We must follow the rules of Covid and cover as many cases as possible at the initial stage,” said a contagious specialist.