India News | Gujarat: COVID-19 Count Goes Up by 1,152; 18 Die, 977 Recover

Ahmedabad, Aug 12 (PTI) Gujarat reported 1,152 new coronavirus positive cases on Wednesday, pushing the overall tally of the state to 74,390, the health department said.

With the death of 18 patients, its fatality count rose to 2,715, it said.

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As many as 977 patients were discharged from various hospitals in the state during the day. This took the number of recovered cases to 57,393.

With this, the recovery rate rose to 77.15 per cent, the department said in its release.

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As many as 50,124 samples were tested in the last 24 hours, the highest so far in the state, it said.

A total of 11,09,005 samples have been tested so far.

Gujarat's COVID-19 figures are as follows: Positive cases 74,390, new cases 1,152, deaths 2,715, discharged 57,393, active cases 14,282 and people tested so far 11,09,005.

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