27 students among 188 new Covid cases in Surat city
A total of 188 people, including 27 students and three teachers and one employee, tested positive for Covid-19, while one more person succumbed to the infection in the city of Surat on Saturday, officials from the municipal corporation’s health department said. .
With the new cases, the death toll from Covid-19 in the city has reached 852, even as the total cases of infection reached 42,259.
Among the eight areas of the city of Surat, a maximum of 64 cases of Covid-19 were reported in the area of the Athwa area. Twenty-six Covid-19 patients are admitted to New Civil Hospital, while 13 more are receiving treatment at the SMIMER hospital run by SMC.
With an increase in infection, municipal health department officials on Saturday conducted tests at 49 universities and schools in the city of Surat and conducted 3,699 tests. During the campaign, officials found more than 30 positive cases, including three teachers, one employee and 27 students. All infected people have been placed in home quarantine while the institute’s facilities, such as classrooms and teachers’ rooms, are closed for 14 days for disinfection.
Health department sources said on Saturday that a total of 13,705 people had been vaccinated, of which the first dose was administered to 524 health workers, while the second dose was administered to 637. Also, among 97 health workers In the first line, the first dose was administered and 1923 the second dose. At least 8,345 people older than 60 years and 2,179 people older than 45 years with comorbid diseases were also vaccinated.
Dr Ashish Naik, Surat Deputy Health Commissioner, said: “We have started a campaign to cover schools and universities and this will continue for a few more days. We wanted to ask citizens to strictly follow the Covid-19 guidelines and avoid going out to public places without any work and maintaining social distancing. ”
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