Gujarat COVID-19 count up by 376 to 5,804: death toll 319
Ahmedabad, May 4 () Gujarat on Monday reported 376new COVID-19 cases and the highest single-day deaths at 29,with Ahmedabad alone accounting for 26, taking the overallnumber of the affected people to 5,804 and fatalities to 319,a Health department official said.
The number of the recovered people in the state roseto 1,195 after 153 patients were discharged from hospitals,Principal Secretary (Health) Jayanti Ravi said.
With 259 new cases, the number of COVID-19 cases inAhmedabad crossed the 4,000-mark at 4,076 while the overalldeath toll mounted to 234.
"Of the 29 fatalities, 26 deaths were reported fromAhmedabad while two deaths were reported from Vadodara and onefrom Surat. Of them, 13 patients were suffering fromcomorbidities," Ravi said.
She said the discharged included a 65-year-old fromNavsari with a chronic heart disease, and an HIV positivepatient from Ahmedabad who was suffering from severe anaemiasince the last 2.5 years.
Besides Ahmedabad, new cases were reported fromVadodara (35), Bhavnagar (21) and Surat (20). With this, thetotal number of COVID-19 cases in Surat now stands at 706 andat 385 in Vadodara, Ravi said.
Other districts that reported fresh cases are: Anand(1), Banaskantha (3), Botad (3), Dahod (6), Gandhinagar (7),Jamnagar (3), Panchmahal (7), Rajkot (3), Mahisagar (3), Kheda(3), and Sabarkantha (2).
"Of the 4,290 active cases in the state, 25 patientsare on ventilator support. A total 84,648 samples have beentested so far in the state," she said.
Ravi also said that hospitals in Ahmedabad, Rajkot andSurat have been selected for the WHO solidarity internationalclinical trial to be conducted by the Indian Council ofMedical Research on aspects like improvement of condition ofcoronavirus patients, rate of mortality, need for ventilators,severe drug reactions post five-drug regime etc.
BJ Medical College, GMERS and SVP Hospital inAhmedabad, New Civil Hospital in Surat and PDU Medical Collegein Rajkot have been selected for the study, she said.