Covid-19: Ahmedabad sees 94 fewer deaths in June

AHMEDABAD: Two districts of the state – Ahmedabad and Surat – accounted for 82% and 75% of total Covid-19 cases in the months of May and June, respectively. These districts also saw 89.4% and 85% of the total deaths in these two months.
But while Ahmedabad – which has been identified as a national hotspot for Covid-19 – recorded a dip in cases and deaths in June, Surat recorded three times the number of cases and two times the deaths in June, compared to May.On June 30, for the first time, Surat district and city saw more fresh cases than Ahmedabad. While Surat’s total was 199, Ahmedabad recorded 197.

In June, Ahmedabad recorded 8,733 cases and 599 deaths, which were 421 and 94 less than the May tallies of 9,154 and 693. In percentage terms, these were 5% and 14% reductions. Surat, on the other hand, recorded 3,209 cases and 89 deaths in June, significantly more than the 1,006 cases and 44 deaths recorded in May.
Ahmedabad is still far ahead in terms of overall numbers of cases and deaths. Analysis of the seven days from June 25 to July 1 shows that Ahmedabad city recorded 1,437 cases while the rest of the district had 90 cases. In comparison, Surat city and district recorded 1,209 and 109 cases, respectively. Likewise, against Ahmedabad’s death toll of 71, Surat recorded 24. In the past week, Ahmedabad’s death toll has been almost three times that of Surat, but the number of cases is only 16% higher. Analysis of the month-wise data reveals that June accounted for 48.5% of total cases so far, followed by 38% in May, 13.2% in April and 0.3% in March. In terms of deaths, June had 43.8% of the total deaths, May 44.6%, followed by 11.2% in April and 0.4% in March.