Dani Limda

Ghodasar

Jamalpur

Untitled Carousel Shocking! COVID-19 positive patients refusing to get admitted in Ahmedabad "PLEASE #HelpUsToHelpYou," he said with a folded hands emoji using a hashtag #AmdavadFightsCorona.

Gujarat University

coronavirus

Untitled Carousel Ahmedabad civic body rolls out medical surveillance vans With new cases of coronavirus surfacing in the city and in a bid to augment testing, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) on Tuesday rolled out seven vans for carrying out intensive surveillance and collecting samples of suspected cases, officials said.

For the third day at a stretch, Ahmedabad reported a huge spike in cases, with 46 new cases declared on Saturday, taking the total tally of Covid- 19 positive cases to 243 in the city.Of these cases, two were reported from Sarita Apartment in Kankaria, one from Sahkar Niketan Society in Navrangpura, one from Sorabji Compound in Stadium area, apart from hotspots and cluster containment areas like Popatiyawad and Kazi no Mohallo in Dariapur,, Shahe- Alam,and, said asenior AMCofficial.If you take into account the last 24 hours, 86 new cases were reported, of which 62 cases are in Central Zone, followed by 12 in South Zone, 4 in North Zone, 4 in West Zone, 3 in East Zone and 1in South West Zone.Civic officials said that 50 per cent of the new cases were asymptomatic. Talking about Covid-19 status, Municipal Commissioner Vijay Nehra said that AMC teams have started testing and sample collection exercise in dense pockets of all zones and wards of city. “A total of 748 medical teams scanned 1,17,519 households and 5,08,210 people across the city. Of these, 678 samples (of suspected Covid- 19 positive) were collected,” Nehra said.Meanwhile, two patients died in the city, taking the toll to 9 deaths so far. Ten persons have been discharged till Saturday. “One positive case infects as many as 400 to 500 people. When we identify this one case, we save many people from getting infected. If we go by mortality rate of 3%, we can save at least 10-15 lives and because of this intense surveillance, we have been able to identify more cases. We will go ahead with the same strategy,” the civic chief said.Atotal of 1,349 people are under home quarantine, 370 in government quarantine facility and 10 in hospital – taking tally of total quarantined persons to 1,774 in the city.CovidBeaters to CovidWarriorsMeanwhile, the AMC has set up Covid Care Centre and Covid Health Centre at Samras boys hostel, behindto fight Covid-19. AMC has approached those who have overcometo manage the Covid Care Centre. Nehra said, “Covid- Beaters have better immunity and can work as volunteers to help manage the Care Centre. I am happy to say that all those CovidBeaters we approached as volunteers in these facilities have responded enthusiastically.”Asymptomatic Covid-19 cases will be transferred to Covid Care Centre, while Covid Medical Centre will be for Covid-19 patients who require oxygen support as part of treatment.