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.
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Shattering all previous records, Gujarat on Saturday reported a record single-day spike of 14,097 new Covid-19 cases, taking its overall tally to 4,81,737, while 152 deaths in the past 24 hours mounted its death toll 6,171. The state has reported as many as 1,74,039 Covid cases in April so far, at an average of 7,251 cases per day. Ahmedabad reported the maximum number of cases on Saturday at 5,683, followed by Surat (2,686), Vadodara (701), Jamnagar (639), Rajkot (500), Mehsana (430), Bhavnagar (310), Banaskantha (291), Gandhinagar (286), Junagadh (248), Patan (212), Kutch (190), Bharuch (154), Kheda (146), Sabarkantha (144), Navsari (143), Dahod (126), Mahisagar (110), Gir-Somnath (107), Panchmahals and Valsad (105 each), Tapi (104), Amreli and Surendranagar (98 each), Anand (88), Narmada (71), Aravalli (67), Morbi (65), Porbandar (49), Devbhumi Dwarka (44), Dangs (39), Botad (33) and Chotta Udepur (25).
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National is already taking aim at the Government s major health sector reform, calling it a reckless move that will see regions lose their autonomy.
The party s health spokesman, Shane Reti, was also critical of plans to create a separate Māori Health authority, saying it could create a two-tier system . On one hand Health Minister Andrew Little claims he s trying to create a single, harmonious, joined-up health system and on the other he s creating a two-tiered funding system based on race.
But Te Pāti Māori (the Māori Party) has welcomed this morning s news – particularly the announcement of a Māori Health Authority.
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