Ahmedabad imposes night curfew as COVID cases rise

Ahmedabad has imposed night curfew from 9 pm to 6 am after coronavirus cases kept rising in the city. The curfew will come into effect from Friday and will stay on indefinitely. Data released by the Gujarat government's health department puts Ahmedabad's tally of confirmed cases at over 45,000 to date. This includes over 40,000 recoveries and nearly 2,000 casualties.Officials have attributed the spike in coronavirus cases to the festival season. They said hospitals in the city have enough beds to accommodate new COVID-19 patients.Some 40 per cent beds in hospitals are still available for coronavirus patients, said Additional Chief Secretary Rajiv Kumar Gupta, who has been appointed officer on special duty for COVID-19 in Ahmedabad.

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1281 New cases
1274 Discharged

8 Deaths reported
54,256 Tests carried out today

Total 69,78,249 Tests carried out so far
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