Rajasthan records highest single-day spike of 480 Covid-19 cases

Syed Intishab Ali / TNN / Jul 4, 2020, 22:14 IST

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State reported its biggest single-day jump in Covid-19 cases on Saturday adding 480 new infections reported from different parts of the state. It has happened for the first time, when the state's Covid-19 single-day count breached 400-mark tumble the record of highest single-day spike of 395 cases reported on June 23.

Rajasthan records highest single-day spike of 480 Covid-19 cases

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JAIPUR: State reported its biggest single-day jump in Covid-19 cases on Saturday adding 480 new infections reported from different parts of the state. It has happened for the first time, when the state's Covid-19 single-day count breached 400-mark tumble the record of highest single-day spike of 395 cases reported on June 23.
Saturday’s grim record came as 11 districts reported 20 or more than 20 new infections.

Highest number of cases were reported from Alwar, where 54 persons were found infected with the new virus taking its tally 656. While Barmer, in western part of the state, where the state government has already imposed a 7-day lockdown, reported 43 new cases. A vegetable vendor had been found infected with the virus in Balotra of Barmer, following which 33 persons tested positive for the virus on Thursday and state government enforced lockdown on Friday in the affected area.
In Bharatpur, which has been fighting hard to contain the spread of the virus since last week of May, reported 30 new infections. In Bharatpur, the source of infections of Covid-19 were its grain and vegetable mandis. Dholpur too has been reporting cases, where at least 22 family members of a Congress MLA had been found infected with the virus, reported 39 cases on Saturday taking its tally to 740. Till June 19, Dholpur had reported 250 cases and it took the tally to 490 cases in 15 days.
Districts which reported new cases are Alwar (54), Bikaner (46), Barmer (43), Jalore (42), Jaipur (40), Dholpur (39), Bharatpur (30), Jodhpur (29), Nagaur (26), Pali (22), Udaipur (20), Sikar (16), Dungarpur (13), Jhunjhunu (11), Sirohi (8), Ajmer (7), Dausa (4), Karauli (3), Rajsamand (2), Tonk (2), Bhilwara (1), Sriganganagar (1), Hanumangarh (1), Sawai Madhopur (1) and four from other state and one is BSF personnel.

However, as many as 359 persons have been cured of Covid-19 taking its tally to 15,640. The number of active cases has increased to 3445 on Saturday. The highest number of active cases are in Jaipur (479), followed by Jodhpur (411), Alwar (310), Bikaner (244) and Barmer (210).

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