Gujarat's tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 1,79,679 on Saturday with 1046 more persons testing positive for the infection, the state health department said. With the death of 5 more patients, the fatalities increased to 3,756, it said.The state has in all recorded 12,146 active cases of which 71 are on ventilator support. At the same time, 931 patients were discharged from hospitals in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of recovered cases in the state to 1,63,777, the department said in a release here. The state's recovery rate stood at 91.15 percent, it said. As many as 51,161 tests were conducted for coronavirus in the state in a day at a rate of 796.32 tests per day per million population, the department said. With this, the total number of samples tested in the state rose to 64,16,963. Gujarat COVID-19 figures are as follows: Positive cases 1,79,679, new cases 1046, deaths 3,756, discharged 1,63,777, active cases 12,146, people tested so far 64,16,963.

Gujarat's tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 1,79,679 on Saturday with 1046 more persons testing positive for the infection, the state health department said. With the death of 5 more patients, the fatalities increased to 3,756, it said.The state has in all recorded 12,146 active cases of which 71 are on ventilator support. At the same time, 931 patients were discharged from hospitals in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of recovered cases in the state to 1,63,777, the department said in a release here. The state's recovery rate stood at 91.15 percent, it said. As many as 51,161 tests were conducted for coronavirus in the state in a day at a rate of 796.32 tests per day per million population, the department said. With this, the total number of samples tested in the state rose to 64,16,963. Gujarat COVID-19 figures are as follows: Positive cases 1,79,679, new cases 1046, deaths 3,756, discharged 1,63,777, active cases 12,146, people tested so far 64,16,963.