Surat: There was a slight dip in the number of daily positive cases as Surat city recorded 1,764 new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday. A day before the count was 1,858. So far, total 86,872 positive cases have been reported in the city.
According to Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) officials, 16 Covid-19 patients succumbed to the virus on Wednesday including a 45-year-old man from Pandesara, a 38-year-old man from Mota Varachha, a 40-year-old woman from Hirabaug, and a 49-year-old woman from Bhestan among others.
Rander and Athwa zones have been the Covid-19 hotspots and the two areas continue to report highest daily cases. Athwa recorded 325 new cases while 340 citizens tested positive in Rander on Wednesday.
Rajneesh and Udita Pandey (C) with their son Arul
Surat: On Wednesday, when a month-and-half-old Arul was brought home by his parents, he was welcomed in a celebratory atmosphere similar to when he had come home for the first time after his birth.
For Arul’s parents Rajneesh Pandey and Udita Pandey, it was another birth for their son in such a short period of time. Just a few days ago, Arul had all tubes tied to his body and kept in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) because 10 days after his birth, he had tested positive for Covid-19.
“My wife had tested positive first and then our son. We took him to an urban health clinic because he had fever and his pulse was high,” said Rajneesh, who works with Adani Hazira Port Pvt Ltd in Surat. At the centre the baby had tested positive for coronavirus. Rajneesh then took him to a private hospital on Ring Road from where he was discharged after four days.
Surat/Rajkot: There is no end of frustrating waits for relatives of Covid-19 victims.
After endless wait for RT-PCR testing, oxygen cylinders, CT-scan 108 ambulances, hospital admission and to cremate their near and dear ones, the kin of those killed by Covid-19 are now standing in long queues to get the death certificates.
For the past several days in Surat, Athwa and Varachha-A zone offices of Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) have been witnessing long queues as citizens have to go through the bureaucratic process in the scorching heat to get the death certificates.
On Tuesday, at Athwa zone office in Adarsh Society the rush to get the death certificates was so much that the civic body had to start two more counters to handle the crowd.
Surat: Investigation into the remdesivir black-marketing racket busted in Punagam on April 17 revealed that the mastermind, Vivek Dhameliya, had purchased 89 vials of the Covid-19 emergency medication from Surat’s New Civil Hospital (NCH) in four days.
Dhameliya (29), a homeopathic doctor and partner at Nitya Hospital, later sold the injections at higher prices, police said.
During the investigation, the crime branch found that Dhameliya had procured the injections legally after following procedures laid down by the state government. However, some of the injection stock that was not utilised at the hospital was sold on the black market. Dhameliya and the other accused charged different amounts from the buyers.