Gujarat's tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 8,19,381 on Friday with 481 more persons testing positive for the infection, the state health department said. With the death of 9 more patients, the fatalities increased to 9,985, it said. The state has in all recorded 11,657 active cases of which 296 are on ventilator support. At the same time, 1526 patients were discharged from hospitals in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of recovered cases in the state to 7,97,734, the department said in a release here. The state's recovery rate stood at 97.36 percent, it said.

Gujarat's tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 8,19,381 on Friday with 481 more persons testing positive for the infection, the state health department said. With the death of 9 more patients, the fatalities increased to 9,985, it said. The state has in all recorded 11,657 active cases of which 296 are on ventilator support. At the same time, 1526 patients were discharged from hospitals in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of recovered cases in the state to 7,97,734, the department said in a release here. The state's recovery rate stood at 97.36 percent, it said.