1,010 more corona cases take Gujarat tally over 2.35L

Gandhinagar, Dec 20 : Gujarat on Sunday recorded 1,010 more coronavirus cases, taking the state’s total tally to 2,35,299 even as 7 more fatalities took its death toll to 4,234.
Active cases in Gujarat now total 11,940, of which 11,879 are stable whereas 61 critical patients are still on ventilators.
The spike on Sunday was recorded after 54,694 samples were tested during the past 24 hours.
Ahmedabad recorded 215 new cases, Surat 166, Vadodara 144, Rajkot 113, Gandhinagar 42, Mahesa, Jamnagar and Panchmahals (28 each), Kheda 26, Bharuch 25, Bhavnagar 22, Junagadh and Kutch (17 each), Banaskantha and Dahod (16 each), Anand 14, Patan 12, Sabarkantha and Surendranagar (11 each), Amreli 9, Morbi 8, Narmada 7, Gir-Somnath 6, Mahisagar 5, Botad and Valsad (4 each), Tapi, Chotta Udepur, Devbhoomi Dwarka and Navsari (3 each), and Aravalli and Porbandar (one case each).
In December so far, Gujarat has recorded 25,519 corona cases at an average of 1,276 cases daily.
Of the seven latest deaths, five were reported in Ahmedabad, and one each in Surat and Vadodara. Gujarat’s mortality rate is however gradually coming down. It is presently at 1.80 per cent.