Another peak for Vadodara with 79 cases

VADODARA: Vadodara city and district registered yet another single-day peak on Sunday with 79 new Covid-19 cases recorded in 24 hours since Saturday evening.
With the addition of fresh cases, the total number detected so far touched 3,604. The new cases were detected from 544 samples that were tested since Saturday evening.
On Sunday, the authorities declared two more deaths.With this, the official death tally due to Covid-19 has touched 62 even as authorities are yet to declare many deaths that have occurred during the pandemic.
The fresh cases have been reported from VIP Road, Pratapgunj, New Sama Road, Warasiya, RTO Road, Soma Talav, Chanakyapuri, Chhani Jakatnaka, Raopura, Maneja, Makarpura, Subhanpura, Laxmipura Road and Khatri Pole areas within the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) limits.
In Vadodara rural, the fresh cases have been reported from Dabhoi, Karjan, Padra, Bajwa, Karodiya and Sayajipura.
Within the VMC limits, north zone which is worst-hit saw an addition of 26 new cases taking the total number of cases to 1,131. In Vadodara rural that saw addition of 20 new cases, the total number of cases has touched 606. The south zone witnessed addition of 18 new cases taking the total to 693 while the total number of cases in east zone touched 769 after ten new cases were registered in this zone.
West zone saw an addition of five new cases taking the total number of cases to 378.
Currently, there are 653 patients under treatment. Of them, condition of 483 is said to be stable while 131 patients are being treated with the support of oxygen and 39 others are under ventilator or BiPAP support.
On Sunday, 160 patients including 41 from government hospitals, 115 from private hospitals and four who were under home isolation were discharged. With this, the total number of patients discharged so far has touched 2,889.
A total of 1,654 individuals are under quarantine. Of them, 1,569 are under home quarantine, 65 are at government facility while 20 are under quarantine at private facilities.