Surat/Vadodara: In December when Nisha Patel (name changed), a decorator, was cured of coronavirus, she heaved a sigh of relief. But within weeks Patel and her husband had another scare as her periods were delayed by more than 10 days.
The couple felt a little better when her pregnancy test turned out to be negative, but the delayed periods were still a worry.
After consulting her doctor, she learnt that her menstrual cycle had been temporarily disturbed due to Covid.
So far, it has been reported that the lungs, kidneys, liver and heart are the major organs that get affected due to the virus. But several women, who have tested negative even after having mild symptoms, have complained that their menstrual cycle got disturbed temporarily.
Surat: The steady rise in new Covid-19 case as well as the casualties continued on Thursday as the Diamond city witnessed 1,551 new cases as compared to Wednesday’s 1,424. As per the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) s official data, 25 Covid-19 patients succumbed to the virus on Thursday.
Out of the 25 patients who died of Covid-19, nine were women with three of them below the 45-year-old category. A 32-year-old woman from Sarthana Jakatnaka, a 34-year-old woman from Lambe Hanuman Road in Varachha (A) zone, and a 43-year-old woman from Yogi Chowk of Varachha were among those who died on Thursday.
Out of the total eight civic zones, three Athwa, Rander and Katargam reported over 200 Covid-19 positive cases on Thursday. Rander, which crossed 10,000 positive-case mark on Thursday, and Athwa were the Covid-19 hotspots for the last few months.
Covid test at textile market
SURAT: Despite repeated appeals by the civic body, SMC enforcement teams on Thursday found several shopkeepers flouting Covid guidelines and forced them to down shutters. Shops and establishments located near Avirbhav society in Pandesara where the employees had either not gone for testing or have not got vaccinated bore the brunt of civic body’s ire.
According to SMC officials, enforcement team formed to oversee Covid-19 guidelines carried out checking in various areas of Udhna zone on Thursday and found 78 shopkeepers flouting prescribed guidelines. Similarly, 47 shops were forcefully shut down in Jalaramnagar in Pandesara while street hawkers too were removed after large number of people were seen gathering at one place in Pandesara.
Migrant workers waiting for buses at Sahara Darwaja in Surat
Surat: While memories of migrant workers resorting to violence last year demanding to be allowed to go to their natives are still fresh, migrant labourers employed in Surat’s textile and diamond industries have once again started moving out of the city in spite of the chief minister’s repeated assurance that there will be no lock down this year.
However, anticipating a double whammy of lockdown and infection from the new strain of coronavirus, workers are seen ready to pay up to Rs 3,000 to get a berth in the private luxury buses leave from Sachin GIDC, Pandesara, Sahara Darwaja and Delhi Gate for Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and other states every night.
Woman clasps footwear of her relative who is under treatment at NCH in Surat
AHMEDABAD: At a Surat crematorium on Wednesday night, five bodies were cremated on a single makeshift pyre built to speed up the disposal of a rush of corpses. Elsewhere, in crematoriums across Gujarat, the constantly smouldering pyres were testimony to fatalities much higher than the state government s official Covid-19 death toll.
The Surat crematorium had three such oversized beds of wood meant to reduce the dead to ashes. Bulletins released by municipal corporations of four major cities officially state around 25 deaths each daily, but the mortalities are much higher.