With the current rate of patients doubling in four days, Ahmedabad alone can have about 50,000 patients by May 15, and about 8 Lakh patients by May 31, says AMC Commissioner Vijay Nehra. Earlier Ahmedabad was having a case doubling rate of 3-4 days.
Gujarat had recorded 33 deaths till April 15. A week later, the coronavirus death toll in Gujarat rose to 103. The number of Covid-19 positive cases in Gujarat was 695. On April 23, the number of people having contracted novel coronavirus stood at 2624 and 112 death.
Clearly, it is not the number but the rate of spread of Covid-19 in Gujarat is the worry. It has far outpaced Maharashtra. It has already pushed Delhi from second position in the tally of states worst affected by novel coronavirus. In the process, it overtook states such as Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.
With the current rate of patients doubling in four days, Ahmedabad alone can have about 50,000 patients by May 15, and about 8 Lakh patients by May 31, says AMC Commissioner Vijay Nehra. Earlier Ahmedabad was having a case doubling rate of 3-4 days.
Gujarat had recorded 33 deaths till April 15. A week later, the coronavirus death toll in Gujarat rose to 103. The number of Covid-19 positive cases in Gujarat was 695. On April 23, the number of people having contracted novel coronavirus stood at 2624 and 112 death.
Clearly, it is not the number but the rate of spread of Covid-19 in Gujarat is the worry. It has far outpaced Maharashtra. It has already pushed Delhi from second position in the tally of states worst affected by novel coronavirus. In the process, it overtook states such as Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.