Rajkot: Influx of Covid-19 patients from Morbi, Rajkot, Junagadh and Amreli districts have sent Saurashtra’s biggest Covid facility in Jamnagar, GG hospital’s system for a toss while the district administration is leaving no stones unturned to make the entire hospital, barring a few critical departments, into a Covid-only hospital, literally. Jamnagar is second to Rajkot in terms of highest number of Covid cases.
While efforts are on to create additional 800 additional beds, the hospital is already treating total 1,302 patients admitted in the 1,200 beds facility that had been set up last year.
Additional beds have been arranged from the Indian navy and some more have been taken on rent from outside to accommodate all the in-hospital patients.
Rajkot: Rajkot recorded another peak in daily new cases with 503 people testing positive for Covid-19 on Monday. As many as 42 deaths were reported from covid wards of Rajkot hospitals in 24 hours ending Monday morning. According to Rajkot district officials, 3,000 people under treatment in Rajkot. The total number of cases in Rajkot since the pandemic rose to 23,139 on Monday. Meanwhile, 296 people tested positive in Jamnagar district and 110 in Bhavnagar district on Monday.
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Long queue of migrant workers in Rajkot
Rajkot: Fear of lockdown last year has once again come to haunt the migrant workers in Rajkot. Many have started planning to go back to their native apprehending the lockdown.
Long queue of migrant workers has been witnessed since past few days at the Rajkot railway station.
According to railway sources, the trains going towards Muzaffarpur, Patna, Varanasi, Gorakhpur were overcrowded. Those leaving the city include some working in Rajkot’s engineering industry and construction sites.
Parth Ganatra, vice president of Rajkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) said, “Migrant workers are afraid of lockdown and because of that some have left for their native. The chief minister and Prime Minister should appeal to these workers that there was no planning lockdown and workers need not panic.”
Police arrested Rahim Hingorja and Ibrahim Sanedo
Rajkot: An operation carried out on the basis of a tip-off led the Special Operation Group (SOG) of Junagadh Police and local police of Manavadar to the arrest of two criminals and seizure of 16 country-made guns of different makes on Monday.
Police arrested Rahim Hingorja, 33, and Ibrahim Sanedo, 35, both residents of Manavadar town of Junagadh district, on Monday and recovered two country-made pistols from their possession. Later, police carried out a search at Hingorja’s residence in the Laxminagar area.
“We recovered 16 country-made guns of different makes, six live cartridges and 13 used cartridges. Rahim is a history-sheeter and has at least 19 cases registered against him including that of murder, attempt to murder and also cases of Arms act,” police said.
Rajot: A BJP leader from Jetpur was arrested by Bhuj police on Monday in the sensational case of gangster Nikhil Donga’s escape from police custody an.