Anand registers 14 more cases in 24 hrs

Vadodara/Anand: The spike in the number of Covid-19 cases continued in Anand district which for the second consecutive day recorded 14 fresh cases.
So far, Friday was the day when the district witnessed highest single-day spike in cases as 14 individuals had tested positive.
On Saturday, too, the district recorded 14 new cases within 24 hours taking the total number of cases to 221.
Except one case from Borsad’s Qureshi Mohallah and two cases from Khambhat’s Ambakhad Road and Pirajpur areas, all the other positive cases were from Anand taluka.
The fresh cases in Anand have surfaced from Chikodra, Paradise Society, Relief township, Ismailnagar, Moyrui Chisva township, Nutannagar, Polson Dairy Road, Shalimar Society, Juna Dadar, Sahil Park and Fenil Park Society.
With this the total number of patients currently under treatment has touched 45, of which 17 are being treated at Shree Krishna Hospital, 26 at Muslim Medical Center, Vadodara and one each at GMERS Medical College and Hospital, Gotri and Bankers Hospital, Vadodara. Six patients are currently on ventilator, ten on oxygen support while the condition of 29 is said to be stable.
The total number of discharges stand at 155, while 13 deaths due to Covid-19 and 8 for other reasons have been reported by the health officials. So far, 4,875 samples have been tested of which 4,654 have turned out to be negative.