South Gujarat in tight Covid grip

Surat: Covid-19 cases continued to spike in Surat city as well as other districts of south Gujarat on Monday.
Surat city recorded the highest single-day cases on Monday with 185 testing positive. Five patients also succumbed to the virus of whom two were from Katargam zone and one each from Udhna, Limbayat and central zones.
“Also, as many as 170 patients who fully recovered were discharged on Monday,” said an SMC official.
Meanwhile, SMC has ordered closure of street food stalls in hotspots like Varachha (A), Varachha (B), Katargam and other cluster containment zones to stall the spread of the virus.
Rural areas of Surat also reported 32 fresh cases, taking the total number to 525. A 57-year-old man from Ishanpur village of Olpad taluka also died, taking the death toll to 15. Kamrej taluka of Surat reported the highest numbers of cases with 15.
Meanwhile, Navsari district recorded five new positive cases on Monday while a 50-year-old resident of Adarshnagar locality, Prahlad Patil, died.
The number of cases in the union territory of Daman spiked to 89 with 10 more people found infected. The Daman authorities stated that out of the 10, three have travel history and others were in a government quarantine facility. At present, there are a total of 25 containment zones in Daman, which include 14 in Dabhel, five in Kachigam, two in Dunetha and four in Nani Daman.