In Gujarat, the Surat Municipal Corporation has decided to increase the Covid beds in the city by four-fold. Gujarat government has also decided to increase the testing centres in four major cities of the state to check the infection. After a recent spurt in Covid19 cases in Gujarat, the state government has increased the testing facilities in Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara and Rajkot.

Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has also increased testing centres after spiking in fresh cases post-Diwali.

AMC has also declared 35 new micro- containment zones in the city. Door to door screening has been launched in these new containment zones. Meanwhile, tourist destinations in Dang and Valsad districts have been closed by the district authorities.

Meanwhile, India has registered less than 40,000 daily new cases after six days. The number of daily new cases in the last 24 hours is 37,975. For the last 17 days in a row, daily new cases have been sustained below the 50,000 mark, since 8th November. India’s testing infrastructure has seen a significant boost with 2,134 labs across the country. Keeping in line with its commitment to conduct more than one million tests every day, 10,99,545 samples were tested in the last 24 hours. India’s total cumulative tests cross 13.3 cr (13,36,82,275).