The number of active patients in Ahmedabad has already reached half of its total recovered patients
AHMEDABAD: It could well be the fortnight that has changed the course of the pandemic in Gujarat. If one takes the base of the 2011 Census data as an indication of the districts’ and state’s population (6.04 crore), the state had 4 active cases per 10,000 population on April 10 at 22,692.
The number shot to 19 on April 25 as the state’s active cases tally reached 1.15 lakh — recording a five-fold rise.
The districts’ analysis showed that Ahmedabad had 4,583 active cases on April 10, which rose 11 times to 48,555. Tapi recorded an 11-fold rise from 1 active case per 10,000 population to 11 on Sunday.