Gujarat records 1,560 new coronavirus cases

Gujarat has recorded 1,560 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, the highest spike in a 24-hour period so far, the state health department said on Thursday evening. It took the case count in the state to 2,03,509. With 16 patients succumbing to the



infection during the day, the death toll due to the pandemic reached 3,922, it said.

As many as 1,302 patients recovered since Wednesday evening. Of the 16 patients who died during the day, 12 died in Ahmedabad city alone, followed by three in Surat and one in Vadodara.