Coronavirus: COVID-19 cases have increased in Ahmedabad in winter
Ahmedabad:
Ahmedabad imposed a nightly curfew from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. after coronavirus cases continued to rise in the city. The curfew will take effect from Friday and will remain in effect indefinitely. Gujarat City reported a total of 46,022 as of yesterday.
Authorities have attributed the spike in coronavirus cases to the festival season. They said city hospitals have enough beds to accommodate new COVID-19 patients.
About 40 percent of hospital beds are still available for coronavirus patients, said Additional Chief Secretary Rajiv Kumar Gupta, who has been appointed as a special service officer for COVID-19 in Ahmedabad.
The number of micro-containment areas in the city rose to 100 after 14 areas were added to the list on Wednesday, according to the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation.
Residential areas and individual apartments are designated as containment areas after new COVID-19 cases are detected there. This allows the municipal corporation to conduct surveillance and other activities to contain the spread of COVID-19.
The number of new coronavirus infections in India increased 18 percent with 45,576 cases recorded in the past 24 hours, according to government data. That brings the overall figure to 89.58,483 since the outbreak in January. As many as 585 people have died from the disease since yesterday; the total number so far is 1.31,578.
Another city where COVID-19 cases have seen an increase is Delhi. As the virus swept through the nation’s capital weakened by the slide of mercury and a shroud of smoke, Prime Minister Arvind Kejriwal had repeatedly asked people with folded hands to wear masks and maintain safety regulations.
Over the past few weeks, to deal with the increase that had once crossed the 8,000 mark, the center has sent paramedics and increased the number of beds in hospitals.
The World Health Organization emergency director warned that vaccines would not arrive in time to defeat the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. WHO’s Michael Ryan said vaccines should not be seen as a magic “unicorn” solution, and that countries fighting a resurgence of the virus would have to “climb this mountain” once again without vaccines.
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