Ahmedabad, Nov 18 (PTI) Gujarat reported 1,281 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, taking its COVID-19 tally to 1,91,642, the state health department said.

Eight more COVID-19 patients died, raising the state- wide fatalities to 3,823, it said.

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At the same time, 1,274 patients were discharged from various hospitals, said the department in a release.

With this, the number of recovered cases in Gujarat rose to 1,75,362, with the recovery rate increasing slightly over last day to 91.50 per cent, it said.

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The government said it is increasing the number of daily testing for the virus in order to detect new cases and contain its spread after noticing a spike in the last few days.

As many as 54,246 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours at a rate of 834.71 tests per day per million population, the release said.

This took the total number of samples tested so far to 69,78,249.

Gujarat COVID-19 figures are as follows: Positive cases 1,91,642, new cases 1,281, deaths 3,823, discharged 1,75,362, active cases 12,457 and people tested so far 69,78,249.

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