Gujarat's tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 2,58,264 on Friday with 451 more persons testing positive for the infection, the state health department said. With the death of 2 more patients, the fatalities increased to 4,374, it said. The state has in all recorded 5,240 active cases of which 51 are on ventilator support. At the same time, 700 patients were discharged from hospitals in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of recovered cases in the state to 2,48,650, the department said in a release here. The state's recovery rate stood at 96.28 percent, it said.

Gujarat's tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 2,58,264 on Friday with 451 more persons testing positive for the infection, the state health department said. With the death of 2 more patients, the fatalities increased to 4,374, it said. The state has in all recorded 5,240 active cases of which 51 are on ventilator support. At the same time, 700 patients were discharged from hospitals in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of recovered cases in the state to 2,48,650, the department said in a release here. The state's recovery rate stood at 96.28 percent, it said.