Gujarat witnessed 50 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours. Out of these, 15 new cases were registered in Ahmedabad. Ahmedabad city recorded the second consecutive day of 10 or more cases.
As many as 24 people were discharged from the hospital and one Covid-related death in Rajkot district. As of now, the state has crossed 300 active cases.
On Wednesday, the state had reported 45 cases and the death of a fully-vaccinated 61-year-old woman in Anand. Ahmedabad city had reported 11 cases on Wednesday.
Amid the concerns over the Omicron variant, which has made its entry in India, the state government has made stricter rules for those arriving from abroad at the airport.
The Ahmedabad Airport Authorities said the international travellers from ‘at-risk countries will be tested and have to self-quarantine for seven days and be tested again by the district surveillance teams on the eighth day following which they will again have to self-quarantine for seven more days if negative.
“A 72-year-old man had tested coronavirus positive in Jamnagar city of Gujarat following his return from Zimbabwe, an African nation and one of the “at-risk” countries identified by the authorities,” an official said on Thursday.
In order to ascertain if he is infected with the Omicron variant, the health authorities have sent his samples to Ahmedabad for genome sequencing, Jamnagar municipal commissioner Vijaykumar Kharadi said, adding that it will take around one week for the result to come.
A total of 8.14 crore people have been vaccinated so far with atheist one dose. 10,094 deaths have been recorded to date due to Covid-19 in Gujarat.
