90 per cent of total 50,000 covid beds vacant in the State: Gujarat govt

Gandhinagar: The State health department today said that covid19 spread is reducing in the State. Sharing the figures, the department said that against availability of 7,992 covid hospital beds in Ahmedabad city, only 606 beds are occupied, while 7,386 beds are vacant. In Vadodara, against 5,890 beds, only 1,011 beds are occupied while 4,800 beds are vacant. In Surat district, only 234 patients are occupying covid beds against availability of 7,783 beds, which means as many as 7,549 beds are vacant. Overall across the State, over 90 per cent of total 50,000 covid beds are vacant. State health secretary Dr. Jayanti Ravi in a note released today further said that recovery rate in the state is as high as 94.82 per cent. So far over 2.36 lakh patients have recovered from covid. In continuing slide from post Diwali peak of over 1400 case in a day, the State has in last one day recorded 665 new cases of Covid19 against recovery of 897. The total number of active patients has gone below 9,000 at 8,594. The State witnessed 4 fresh deaths in last one day. Total number of cases recorded so far is at 2.49 lakh at present. DeshGujarat