Two more die due to coronavirus in Gujarat; toll reaches 19

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Ahmedabad, Apr 10 () With two more persons, one ofthem an elderly man, succumbing to coronavirus, the toll inGujarat went up to 19, said officials on Friday.

Those who died during the last 12 hours were a 40-year-old man from Ahmedabad and an 81-year-old man fromGandhinagar, said Principal Secretary, Health, Jayanti Ravi.

While the patient from Ahmedabad was suffering from akidney ailment and died at Ahmedabad civil hospital, theelderly man, who contracted the virus from a close contact,died in Gandhinagar civil hospital, she said.

Also, since Thursday, four more persons weredischarged from hospitals following their recovery from thedisease, taking the number of such cases to 30 till date, saidRavi.

Out of the 19 persons who have died so far, thehighest - 7 - was reported from Ahmedabad, followed by Surat(4), two each from Vadodara and Bhavnagar; and one each fromGandhinagar, Panchmahal, Patan and Jamnagar, she said.

Among these, three had returned from a foreigncountry, as many as had travelled to another state and 13contracted the infection locally from a COVID-19 patient, saidRavi.

The death count also included a 14-month-old son of amigrant labourer-couple from Jamnagar. PJT PDRSY RSY