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On Monday, seven new cases of coronavirus surfaced in Gujarat, five of them from Bhavnagar and one each from Ahmedabad and Surat.
Bhavnagar has also reported its second death from Covid-19, taking the total lives lost from the pandemic to six.
The Covid-19 mortality rate in the state remained highest at 8.5 per cent. Kerala, with the highest positive cases in the country at 234, has a mortality rate of less than 0.5 per cent. Most of the deaths in the State had a similarity of being aged and co-morbid with pre-existing ailments such as cancer, diabetes, and blood pressure.
Total positive cases in Gujarat on Monday mounted to 70, of which two are on ventilator and 58 said to be stable. So far, four patients have been discharged.
In the evening health bulletin, Jayanti Ravi, Principal Secretary - Health, Gujarat Government, said that of the fresh seven positive cases, six had local transmission, while only one had a history of international travel. Giving further details, Ravi stated that a total of 18,701 are under quarantine at home, government and private facilities.
Among the deceased, Ravi informed that one had foreign travel history, while two had inter-state travel and two had received infection through local transmission. Among the positive cases, 32 patients had foreign travel history, while 34 had got infection through local transmission and the rest four had inter-state travel history.
The state has identified five districts having maximum Covid-19 cases as hotspots, where it has started implementing cluster containment strategy.
A bigger worry is that the coronavirus infections have spilled over to the smaller towns of Bhavnagar, Porbandar and districts of Gir-Somnath in Saurashtra region, Mehsana in North Gujarat and Kutch.
Gujarat DGP Shivanand Jha has also stated that in view of the spread of the virus, the lockdown will be enforced strictly in the villages as well.
Meanwhile, the State has completed surveillance and tracking of 5.9 crore citizens for possible fever or respiratory infections.
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