More on Covid-19

GANDHINAGAR: With 104 more cases, Gujarat's total coronavirus tally reached 766 on Wednesday, with Ahmedabad (450) accounting for over half of the cases, while three more deaths took the state's toll to 33.On Wednesday morning, a total of 33 positive cases were reported and in the evening, another 71 positive cases and three deaths were registered. Out of these 71 cases,46 were from Ahmedabad, seven in Anand, six in Rajkot, five Vadodara, three in Surat, and two each in Bharuch and Narmada.Ahmedabad has the maximum positive cases (450), followed by Vadodara with 121, Surat 51, Bhavnagar 26, Rajkot 24, Anand 17, Gandhinagar 16, Patan 14, Bharuch 13, Chotta Udepur and Panchmahals with five each, Kutch and Mehsana with four each, Porbandar three, Banaskantha, Dahod, Gir-Somnath and Narmada two each and Jamnagar, Morbi and Sabarkantha one each.Three more positive patients of Corona succumbed to the virus on Wednesday, all females from Ahmedabad. A female (65) with comorbid condition like diabetes and lung disease and another female (55) with heart ailments, admitted in the SVP hospital, Ahmedabad and a female (40) admitted in the Ahmedabad's Civil hospital succumbed to the virus.On the other hand, five positive patients were discharged after treatment - three males (8), (33) and (41) from SVP hospital and a female (33) from Civil hospital were discharged in Ahmedabad, and a male (22) from the Civil hospital Surat. Total 64 positive patients after treatment have been discharged so far.Out of the total 669 active cases, the condition of 663 is stable while 6 are on ventilator, their condition being critical.In the last 24 hours, the health authorities have taken 3,213 samples for testing, out of which 116 have been found positive. The total number of tests carried out by the Health Department till now is 19,197 out of which 766 are positive.The total number of people quarantined in the state is 15,147, where 13,059 are home quarantined, 1,960 in government facilities and 128 in private facilities.The Gujarat government has imposed a week-long curfew in the fortified City of Ahmedabad and the area of Danilimda, from Wednesday morning, as the maximum number of positive cases in Ahmedabad have been found from the clusters in these areas.Till date, out of the total 33 deaths, 16 people have died from the virus infection in Ahmedabad.