Ahmedabad: The total number of infected people increased to 8,62,204 with the highest number of 6,275 new cases of COVID-19 being reported in Gujarat on Sunday since May 18 last year. On May 18 last year, 6,447 cases of COVID-19 were reported. This information was given by an officer.
He said that no case of Omicron form of corona virus was reported on Sunday and the cases of this form stand at 236. He said that no COVID-19 patient died on Sunday and the death toll remained at 10,128. According to the official, 1,263 COVID-19 patients became infection free in the last 24 hours, with which 8,24,163 patients have been cured so far. Presently 27,193 patients are under treatment in the state, out of which 26 are on life support system.
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He said that Ahmedabad had the highest number of 2,519 new cases on Sunday. He said that after this 1,879 cases were reported in Surat, 398 in Vadodara, 254 in Rajkot and 206 in Gandhinagar. An official release said 93,467 people were administered the vaccine during the day, including 17,857 adolescents aged 15-18. With this, the total number of vaccine doses given so far in the state has gone up to 9.31 crore.
According to the official, out of 236 people infected with Omicron, 186 have been cured so far. There are 109 patients under treatment in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, an official said. So far, 10781 cases of this epidemic have been reported in this union territory, out of which 10668 patients have defeated the infection and four patients have lost their lives.
According to the news received from Shimla, 498 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Himachal Pradesh, taking the number of infected to 2,32,085. With the death of one more patient in the state, the death toll has risen to 3,865.
A health official said that the maximum number of COVID-19 was 164 in Kangra, 95 in Solan, 61 in Sirmaur, 59 in Shimla, 32 in Una, 24 in Mandi, 16 in Hamirpur, 13 each in Bilaspur, Chamba and Kinnaur and Kullu. Eight new patients have been detected in According to the official, now the patients under treatment in the state have increased to 3148. Meanwhile, 156 patients have become infection free and so far 2,25,046 patients have become healthy.(Agency)