Guj: Tally of COVID-19 patients now 108, death toll reaches 10

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Ahmedabad, Apr 4 () With 13 more persons testingpositive to novel coronavirus in Gujarat on Saturday, thetotal number of such cases has risen to 108, a top Healthofficial said.

Simultaneously, the Covid-19 death toll in the statenow stood at 10 with the death of one more person.

Four more COVID-19 patients were discharged fromhospitals after recovery, one of them in Vadodara and threeothers in Gandhinagar, including an 80-year-old woman who alsosuffered from diabetes and other diseases, Principal Secretary(Health), Jayanti Ravi, said.

With this, 14 patients have been discharged in thestate so far, she said.

"Among the 13 new cases, seven are from Ahmedabad, twofrom Bhavnagar, two from Gandhinagar, and one each from Patanand Surat, taking the total number of such cases to 108," Ravisaid.

While 11 of these cases are locally transmitted, apatient from Patan was found to have travelled to Mumbai whileanother from Ahmedabad had visited Delhi.

With Patan district reporting its first coronaviruspositive case on Saturday, the number of districts whichreported similar cases rose to 12.

Ahmedabad has reported the highest number of cases at45, followed by Surat and Gandhinagar at 13 each, Rajkot at10, Vadodara and Bhavnagar at 9 each, Porbandar at 3, GirSomnath at 2, and Kutch, Patan, Panchmahal and Mehsana at oneeach.

With the death of a 67-year-old woman at Ahmedabadhospital on Saturday, the total number of fatalities in thestate has gone up to ten.

The woman, who was admitted to Sardar VallabhbhaiPatel Hospital on March 28, was on ventilator, Ravi said.

Her husband is also a coronavirus positive case with atravel history to Indore in Madhya Pradesh.

Meanwhile, of the four patients who recovered onSaturday included an 80-year-old woman who was admitted in aGandhinagar hospital, a 27-year-old woman from Vadodara, a 23-year-old woman and a 50-year-old man, both form Gandhinagar.

Of the total 108 patients, 64 have been infectedthrough local transmission, while 33 have had a history oftravelling abroad and 11 others of visiting oher states.

Officials said that 2018 out of the total 2139 samplestested so far in Gujarat have tested negative while result of16 is awaited. KA PDNPNSK NSK