While 364 new cases were reported across the state on Tuesday, Gujarat witnessed testing below its usual capacity of 3,000 with only 2,953 samples taken in a 24-hour period.
On the other hand, death toll crossed 900 with 32 more succumbing to the viral infection, 23 of whom died in Ahmedabad.
Days after the Gujarat High Court pulled up government officials and Gujarat Health Minister Nitin Patel for the condition at Ahmedabad Civil Hospital owing to the high number of Covid-related deaths, the state government submitted that the hospital’s Covid wards were visited five times by Patel in the last two months and around 20 times by Principal Secretary (Health) Jayanti Ravi and Health Commissioner Jaiprakash Shivahare. The officials met patients, doctors, resident doctors, nurses and other staff members, according to a press note.Press briefings were not held for the fourth day on Tuesday. No data for those on ventilator support across the state was available in the daily bulletin.
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